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10 EDITOR’S NOTE J.T. Townsend: a major player in Northeast Florida. p. 4 NEWS Kona School founders envision students at a place where individual sports fuel academic achievement. p. 6 BUZZ Archaic Duval schools budget, companies expand in Jacksonville, a new UNF swimming and diving complex, escaped animals in Jacksonville Beach, longer terms in Fernandina, the big hole in the Jacksonville budget and the new DIA CEO. p. 6 DEEMABLE TECH How do I sanitize my iPhone? p. 8 THE SPECKTATOR Father’s Day gifts your dad will want that are available in and around Jacksonville and won’t raise his cholesterol. p. 8 BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS J.T. Townsend, Sen. Marco Rubio, Marina Alley and Arianne Leary. p. 8 ON THE COVER Nelson Cuba was living the American dream until the Allied Veterans of the World gambling scandal put his police service and union leadership under a cloud of doubt. p. 10 OUR PICKS “9 to 5: The Musical,” Community First Seawalk Music Festival, Food Truck Championship, Kendrick Lamar, Newsroom Street Fight and The Neighbourhood. p. 16 MOVIES “Man of Steel”: Themes of morality, compassion and love suffer in the wake of relentless slambang action. p. 18

Though you can watch many of these films on cable or DVD, two St. Augustine venues are showing free movies from almost every decade. p. 19

34 “This Is the End”: Watching the stars parody themselves in perverted and witty ways is worth a watch, but the stretched-out sketch runs out of ideas. p. 21 MUSIC San Francisco duo Two Gallants reboots its lyrically dense, sonically intense version of indie rock. p. 23 ARTS Playwright Bert Royal comes home to see staging of his angst-ridden parody of Charlie Brown and the “Peanuts” gang, “Dog Sees God.” p. 31 HAPPENINGS After a colorful history as a movie studio and marine life attraction, Marineland now focuses on education. p. 34 BITE-SIZED Riverside gastropub The Salty Fig serves upscale dishes that first gained fans from its food truck. p. 36 SPORTSTALK New England signs Tim Tebow, who one independent coach says has fixed his throw. p. 45 BACKPAGE University admission, scholarship and investment decisions hurt less advantaged students. p. 47

MAIL p. 5 THE EYE p. 15 MOVIE LISTING p. 22 LIVE MUSIC LISTING p. 25 ARTS LISTING p. 32 HAPPENINGS LISTING p. 35 DINING GUIDE p. 37 CLASSIFIEDS p. 42 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY p. 44 NEWS OF THE WEIRD p. 44 I SAW U p. 46 Cover design by Paul T. Fenn Photo: Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union

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J.T. Townsend 1987-2013 A major player in Northeast Florida

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f those who knew J.T. Townsend could pick one thing they’ll remember most about him, it’s his smile.

“It was a lightning bolt smile, and it was authentic,” said Kristine Webb, director of the Disability Resource Center at the University of North Florida where Townsend graduated in May. “It started from the inside and came from within to what we saw on his face.”

“It just made your day,” said Jennifer Kane, who taught Townsend in two classes as chair of the sports management department.

Of course, Townsend was much more than a smile.

He received a scholarship to attend Episcopal School of Jacksonville in 2003, where he played football and basketball. After a tackle during a running play against Bishop Kenny Oct. 8, 2004, Townsend suffered a spinal cord injury that left him without feeling below the neck. The community rallied around the Townsend family, helping with his recovery and a specially equipped home for his family.

In response, he started a nonprofit to help 2013 those with disabilities in Northeast Florida.

The J.T. Townsend Foundation has given $149,000 in financial assistance or equipment to 60 families since fall 2010, according to board member Kelly Winer.

Townsend was devoted to the foundation’s work and personally delivered every piece of equipment or check, Winer said.

“One of the most exciting things was to witness him giving back,” she said. “You really can’t compare that feeling of giving back to help people truly in need.”

One of the people Townsend helped was Brett Parks.

In October 2012, Parks tried to stop a man who had just robbed someone at a Southside apartment complex, but the man shot twice, hitting Parks in the abdomen. Parks managed to remain conscious until he reached the hospital, but he lost a lot of blood. After being in a coma for 20 days, he woke up to learn he was missing a kidney and about a third of his right leg. Parks, who joined the Navy in 2008, said the situation seemed bleak.

“Then, one day this guy comes rolling into my hospital room, and he’s got a big smile on his face. I thought, ‘What is he smiling about?

He’s worse off than I am,’” Parks said.

“He really motivated me to get up out of bed and stop feeling sorry for myself,” he said.

Two of Parks’ biggest motivations: his 2-year-old son, Jason, and his daughter, 6-month-old Stella, who was born two months after the incident.

“I started working on walking again for my son and my daughter-to-be.”

Now, Parks speaks at churches and high schools about what it means to have courage and faith, something Townsend encouraged

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him to do.

“He said, ‘It’s not a tragedy, it’s an opportunity. It’s an opportunity to tell our story,’” Parks said.

Everybody has those moments that are life changing, like meeting your spouse and having your children. “Meeting J.T. was a lifechanging moment for me,” Parks said.

“He didn’t just survive his injury, he thrived,” Parks said. “He told me, ‘I thought I was going to make an impact before, but look at me now.’”

That impact was felt wherever Townsend went. He received help at the Disability Resource Center, but he was always among the first to volunteer for outreach or speaking engagements, Webb said. He helped design the center’s accessibility, using his large wheelchair as the model.

“If it would work for him, it would work for anyone,” Webb said.

“J.T. was a model for so many folks because he never let the chair or the disability define him.It was his character and his intellect that defined him.”

Kane taught Townsend in two classes, including Resource Development for Nonprofit Organizations, a subject in which he was keenly interested. She saw him mature from a shy, reserved student to a funny, active participant.

“I don’t think anybody looked at him as disabled; they looked at him as so abled.”

Townsend had just completed an internship with the Wounded Warrior Project and was talking to the Jacksonville Jaguars about a position in the graphic arts department, Kane said.

“He came to UNF to learn and for us to teach him, but looking back on it, he taught us,” Kane said.

“He never asked for an extension on an assignment. You can only imagine what he had to do to get to class every day, and he’d be there every day with a smile.”

Once again, that smile is what people remember, like Parks in that hospital room.

“He really helped us smile at a time when we really didn’t feel like smiling.”

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aquifer is overused, salt water intrudes into it, rendering it useless for drinking or most other uses. Until the day comes when saltwater can be made drinkable relatively inexpensively, drinking water will slowly become among our rarest resources. Until the thinking that water is endless and “cannot be wasted” is stopped, ignorance will prevail and future wars just may be fought over water, not oil.

I am not an environmentalist, nor am I a “water hog,” but merely a person that has taken the time to learn my facts and do my best to conserve.

Learn the Facts About Water

The letter [“It Is Impossible to Waste Water,” May 29] asserts that Folio Weekly is engaged in fear-mongering and is somehow following a socialist agenda with no regard for the truth by publishing the identity of Water Hogs. The writer justifies his outrage with a simplistic assumption that equates the purchase of treated fresh water from a public water supply utility with a fuzzy interpretation of property rights.

He ignores the fact that the quantity of water the utility can pump is regulated by a government agency and that this quantity is established based on a contentious process that seeks to ensure that the water is used to serve public purpose, including economic and ecological factors as well as resource availability. The utility has a duty to ensure that fresh potable water, an extremely scarce resource, is distributed in ways that serve the public good.

Unfortunately, the writer compounds his initial mistake by making brash, but inaccurate, assertions typical of much anti-government, political rhetoric. First, he states that “ … the most abundant substance found on Earth is water.” Wrong again: While water is quite abundant on the surface of the Earth, most water exists as seawater or brine; these waters are saturated with chemical elements that render it unfit for human consumption or irrigation. In other words, most of the water available for use on Planet Earth is non-potable. It is true that the elemental components of water, hydrogen and oxygen, are also quite abundant. In fact, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe; oxygen is also abundant. Unfortunately, most of the hydrogen and oxygen found on Earth is bound up with elements like iron, calcium, silicon and carbon in non-aqueous compounds, like iron ore, limestone, sand and hydrocarbons that are also quite non-potable. In reality, fresh potable hydrogen dioxide (water) is actually quite rare.

Finally, from an economic perspective, the writer ignores the fact that the pricing mechanisms consistent with his grade school understanding of economics cannot be trusted to allocate fresh water among millions of users.

Water is a commodity that cannot be equitably distributed using simplistic supply-demand pricing models. When water is abundant, it is quite cheap. But during some extreme weather events, like a flood, it has no little economic value.

However, when rainfall patterns are disrupted and water is scarce, like during a drought, water can be quite expensive. Under certain circumstances a sip of water can be priceless.

Government regulation to conserve supply and regulate demand is the only fair, not to

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mention cost-effective, means of allocating this scarce resource among millions of users.

And public oversight of this regulatory process, by the news media and public interest groups, is the only effective way of ensuring that government policy fairly distributes this increasingly scarce and irreplaceable resource.

Water policy is really rather straightforward once one understands the underlying principles of economics and simply principles of hydrology. Too many selfdescribed conservatives, libertarians and anti-government ideologues jump into environmental debates without doing their homework. Political science is not a substitute for hard science. To be credible, conservatives need to use accurate facts and understand how the fundamental laws of science (physics, chemistry and biology) and economic philosophy must be used to interpret the meaning of those facts.

By the way, rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions from human activities (atmospheric levels are now at 400 ppmv and rising exponentially) are causing changes in Earth’s energy balance that are disrupting long-stable global climate patterns; these are the forces that control rainfall distribution and are shifting in ways that nobody can predict.

Thermodynamics 101.

Unchecked, the consequences for humanity could be disastrous. If you think that this is another socialist conspiracy, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

David E. Bruderly Jacksonville

Drinkable Water Is a Rare Resource

To the guy that wrote in stating “it is impossible to waste water,” I would ask, what in the world have you been smoking? The only sensible thing he stated was that the most abundant substance on Earth is water. Beyond that, his ignorance kicks in.

As far as his statement that 300 million gallons of water per day is used to create newsprint, that may be true, but the vast majority of that water used is reclaimed or reused, not drinkable.

When people talk about water use and conservation, they are generally referring to “potable water” or “drinkable water.” Less than 1 percent of the Earth’s water qualifies as such. Many wells and most municipalities in Florida in particular, get their water from the aquifer. This water is not replaceable nearly as fast as it is removed. Many times when the

Open Letter to Shad Khan

My name is Jennifer O’Donnell, and I am the chairman and cofounder of Jax Pack Downtown Merchants Association and also the manager of Chamblin’s Uptown Bookstore & Café.

As a new association created to represent the needs of the Downtown merchants, our group’s founders met with Mayor Alvin Brown recently to introduce ourselves and to offer our hand to help with the revitalization of our downtown core. During our discussion, Mayor Brown mentioned that you were looking for a Starbucks in our Downtown.

Did you know that we have three independently owned coffeehouses in the core of Downtown? The Brick, Midtown Deli and Chamblin’s Uptown. Three local coffeehouses that buy coffee from local roasters such as Bold Bean and SweetWater coffee. Three local coffeehouses that buy and resell baked goods that are made by small and local independent bakeries like Let Them Eat Cake, thus providing local jobs and income to stimulate the local economy.

Mr. Khan, you came from humble beginnings and have done well. You have purchased our beloved football team and revamped them, you have generously begun the Stache Fund, and you gave a substantial donation to our very first One Spark event. I think that these actions alone tell us that you have a fondness for the growth and revitalization of your new-found “hometown.” So to thank you for your kindness, we at Chamblin’s Uptown would like to invite you and Mrs. Khan to come to our modest café and have a wonderful espresso drink (my personal favorite is the Dirty Chai Latte iced) on us. You will be supporting local businesses that support other local businesses. And you can take a few minutes and glance at our 600,000-plus book inventory.

We welcome you to Chamblin’s Uptown.

John Reinheimer Orange Park

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Your advice column for graduates was absolutely stunning in its sensible practicality [“Commencing with the Advice,” May 29].

Wouldn’t it have been a game-changer to have followed these tenets when they would have had the biggest impact (I guess I am assuming you have learned some lessons the hard way - like most of us)? My son graduates from Stanton next week. I’m going to read it OUT LOUD to him. Thanks!

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NewsBuzz Holes in City Budget City officials claim police and fire retirement reform will have a big impact on the size of the city’s budget deficit. In a June 3 letter to the City Council, Chris Hand, the mayor’s chief of staff said, “The projected deficit is approximately $64 million without retirement reform and $18 million with retirement reform.” The Council has hired its own attorney to check out those figures.

Regardless of the holes in the budget, the Council will have to figure out how to balance it before the start of the new fiscal year. On a positive note, projected revenues for the upcoming fiscal year are $950 million, up from $947 million this year.

DIA Selects First CEO Aundra C. Wallace, executive director of the Detroit Land Bank, has been named the first CEO of the Downtown Investment Authority. Wallace was one of two finalists interviewed by the DIA Board June 6. The other finalist was Kevin Hanna, director of real estate for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. The DIA is one of the key components of Mayor Alvin Brown’s economic development strategy and is responsible for creating and managing economic development, recruitment and marketing plans in the Downtown area.

Companies Plan Jacksonville Expansions Energy Intelligence Worldwide Corp., Total Quality Logistics LLC and the Bank of America are each proposing expansions in Jacksonville. Combined, the companies’ projects are expected to create 320 new high-wage jobs, with an average annual salary of more than $50,000 and about $14 million in capital investment in Jacksonville. Mayor Alvin Brown announced the plans June 5. Bank of America is planning to expand operations at two Southside Jacksonville campuses to accommodate Bank of America and Merrill Lynch lines of business. EIWC, a company that provides energy management solutions, is interested in locating its global corporate headquarters in Downtown Jacksonville. It would create 45 new full-time jobs. Total Quality Logistics, the second largest freight brokerage company in the nation, is planning on opening a Jacksonville office, creating 75 new jobs. Legislation will be filed with the City Council to provide incentives to the three companies.

UNF Dives Right In The University of North Florida is planning to build a new Olympic-sized NCAA-regulation swimming pool and diving complex. UNF said the Andy Sears Pool in the UNF complex needs about $3 million in repairs, although college spokeswoman Joanna Norris said UNF does not have an estimate for what the new pool will cost. The current pool will close March 1 at the end of the 2013-’14 women’s swimming and diving season. During the time it takes to fund, design and construct a new pool, the UNF swim team will train and compete at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.

Longer Terms in Fernandina?

Fernandina Beach residents will have the opportunity to vote in November on whether to change the terms of city commissioners from three years to four years. If approved by voters, commissioners would be elected every two years in conjunction with state and federal elections. If the Charter Amendment is approved by voters, Ed Boner and Pat Gass will have their current terms extended by one year, the News Leader reported.

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Martin Ramos, Kona Skate Park’s second-generation owner, helped hatch the idea of a Kona School. “It’s not just about skateboarding. Individual sports in general can help kids get focused.” Photo: Dennis Ho

A School with Skater Cred

Kona School founders envision students at a place where individual sports fuel academic achievement

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ight when you walk into Kona Skate Park’s main building, the sense of history is all around you. Old-school skateboard decks and vintage photos of David Hackett, Tony Hawk and Danny Way fill the walls. Then you walk out the door and see it: Kona in all its glory. But while Kona’s history is something of legend, the future is what’s catching people’s attention now.

According to a January Reuters story, the national graduation rate has actually increased from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 78.2 percent in 2010. However, Duval County’s graduation rate as of 2012 was 67.69 percent, according to duvalcountyschools.org. New visions are being formulated to help boost that percentage. Enter Kona School.

The idea for an innovative new school was first conceived three years ago by two fathers, James Smith and Martin Ramos, during a skate contest in Daytona.

“What would I need to do?” Ramos, Kona’s second-generation owner, asked Smith about creating a charter school for at-risk teens within Kona Skate Park. Smith, a behavioral interventionist at Grand Park Alternative School, admitted he wasn’t too attracted to the idea at first.

“I never saw myself as an administrator,” Smith said. “I wanted to be directly involved with the kids. After researching in depth into how design can actually help kids in school, I was in.”

This enthusiasm came after his wife’s friend

suggested meeting with Content Design Group, an architectural firm that Ramos and Smith call one of the project’s biggest supporters.

Smith’s research told him that natural light, cleaner air and a creative layout would help make the students more attentive, leading to more creativity. That information shaped the core elements the project will embody. Greg Bier, founder of Content Design Group, said the conversation with Smith was instrumental to the Kona timeline.

“The meeting reignited James’ fire,” Bier said. “It lead to him creating the curriculum, core elements and everything else.”

The core elements are project learning, parent and community engagement, personalized instruction, enterprise and entrepreneur skills, nutrition, exercise, facility and culture. By combining these elements into one goal, Smith said the school can build a bridge between students’ passions for action sports and an education they can obtain in the classroom.

Perhaps Kona School’s biggest achievement thus far was at One Spark: The project took first place in contributions, earning more than $5,500 between donations and crowdfunded prize money, and second place in technology.

“It was like we won the popularity contest,” Ramos said. “Hopefully that leads to more funding; they sort of go hand-in-hand.”

Ramos said they’ve raised nearly $10,000 since they began this project, but they need

GO SKATE DAY Street skating, mini-ramps, a raffle and food trucks. Donations can be made through the website or at the event.

3-9 p.m. June 21 Hemming Plaza, Downtown Jacksonville 257-5857, konaschool.org

“tons” more. Smith added that $1.5 million is needed in order to build the school and run it initially; they plan to apply for grants and do more fundraising in the early stages of the project. After the first several years, they plan for the school to be self-sustaining. The money they’ve raised so far has gone to maintaining the website, developing curriculum, and marketing the school with posters, banners and prints at events.

“As soon as the money comes in, it goes right back into the project,” Ramos said.

They will host the second annual Go Skate Day at Hemming Plaza June 21; it’s a free event, but donations are encouraged. Smith said last year’s event drew nearly 3,500 people and raised roughly $3,000 in donations, enough to continue operations for several months, including the learning management system, the online tool that students will use to guide them through projects.

Ramos said it was a sign of a more progressive community coming together.

“It never would have had a chance 10 years ago,” Ramos said. “Now it’s a lot more accepted. The business community came out.

People who were watching just got immersed into it.”

Ramos and Smith said that in addition to raising money, these events help increase the visibility of the Kona School concept.

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Greg Bier, founder of Content Design Group, said the modular concept of the school means it will be able to go anywhere. Photo: Content Design Group

What type of student is Kona School aiming to attract?

“A kid like myself,” Smith said, students who are creative, adventurous risk-takers, and who find themselves unable to connect their passion to an education.

“I never felt gifted in school, yet I was able to create a school design like this,” Smith said.

His vision is to provide students the tools and the opportunities to create a business plan during their high school years to start their own companies.

Ramos described himself as quite the daydreamer when he was a student. He said a school like Kona would have made learning much more interesting.

“I just wasn’t where everyone else was at,” Ramos said.

As a young skater, he grew up around Kona Skate Park. Now, 35 years later, he’s still following his passion and applying it to the school’s vision.

“It’s not just about skateboarding,” Ramos said. “Individual sports in general can help kids get focused.”

By giving active students fun and challenging opportunities, Ramos said they will feel more connected to the academic portion of their day.

Smith is serving as executive director.

In his community outreach role, Ramos is

recruiting a board of directors for the school.

“They will be the right people for the job, coming from the same type of surfer and skater background,” Ramos said.

Steven Davis, associate professor of education at Jacksonville University, has examined the project’s curriculum. He said that there is a big gap between where local education is now and where it could be with education.

“With the research I’ve done and the practical experience of training teachers, this idea fits right in with the results I found,” Davis said. “They have the right idea and the right people to do it.”

Davis is discussing a possible position with the school in the future.

Brian Mann, executive director and vice president of Florida Coast Career Tech Center, in his recommendation that the “idea of combining academics, action sports, nutrition and sustainability into a comprehensive middle and high school education is one of the most innovative secondary education concepts that I have ever seen.”

The school originated as a charter school concept, but the founders said it will be a private school, to allow them to stay ahead of teaching trends and technological advances.

They estimate the annual tuition will be between $8,000 and $9,000.

While a projected date for the school’s opening was set for the fall of 2014, the school still needs a location and more investors to help fund the project before it can proceed. Bier said the modular concept of the school means it will be able to go anywhere.

“We’ve designed a macro campus using PODS,” Bier said. “It can be slid into an urban core or the beach. As it grows, we can add more.”

Smith said he hopes designing a school focused on students will build community support.

“By creating systems that enable students to have more authority in their own education,” Smith said, “it will give them more motivation and make them more successful.”

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James Smith, a behavioral interventionist at Grand Park Alternative School, helped shape the school’s mission to build a bridge between action sports and the classroom.

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NewsBuzz Everyone, Get a Lawyer The Florida Times-Union is suing Mayor Alvin Brown and the Police & Fire Pension Fund alleging that they violated Florida’s Sunshine Law by conducting collective bargaining negotiations in private. The lawsuit was filed June 6 in Duval County Circuit Court. The lawsuit, filed by attorney George Gabel, asks the court to void the agreement and keep the city from implementing it. City General Counsel Cindy Laquidara and Chris Hand, the mayor’s chief of staff, negotiated for the city and signed the mediation settlement agreement on behalf of the city. Officials of the police and firefighters also signed the agreement. Laquidara‘s office said the office doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The City Council voted in May to hire its own legal counsel to sort through the specifics of the pension agreement. A motion will also be filed in federal court contending that it doesn’t have jurisdiction over city pension issues. “In more than 35 years as a labor attorney, handling hundreds of cases involving public employees, I have rarely seen a lawsuit as off base and uninformed as what The Florida TimesUnion filed today. This case is legal fiction, pure and simple,” said Michael Grogan, an attorney representing

the city of Jacksonville, in a statement. “Strangely, the Florida Times-Union never had a problem during the more than 20-year period when past mayors and City Councils approved settlement agreements related to police and fire pensions. So, we are surprised and disappointed that the Times-Union is forcing the city to spend taxpayer dollars defending a case that has absolutely no basis or merit.”

Archaic Paper Budget for Duval Schools What’s the best way to keep taxpayers and teachers in the dark about what’s in Superintendent Nikolai Vitti’s first budget? Only make it available in paper form and sell it for 15 cents a page for the 70-page document, or $10.50. School spokeswoman Marsha Oliver said the document was not available in electronic form. Oliver said the budget is the work of several people and not easily posted on the Internet. But, if the school system were really interested in transparency, it would put the budget online and make it searchable. The city of Jacksonville emailed a copy of its budget to City Council members in early June.

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“Business casual” has ruined Father’s Day gift-giving for many lazy offspring who can no longer rely on the last-minute, go-to necktie. (Unfortunately, my brother and I didn’t even have that option because our dad never wore a tie to work. Our fall-back gift was a Hickory Farms summer sausage gift box.) Dads also get cheated in the present department because their children probably spent their last ounce of creativity on a Mother’s Day gift. So this year, I am making a concerted effort to give Pops something he actually wants, that is available in and around Jacksonville and won’t raise his cholesterol.

From playing one of the most famous golf courses in the world — with his own caddy, no less — or a haunted pub crawl to driving 24 laps in a NASCAR race car or an old-fashioned neck shave, the kind with the hot towel and the straight razor, I found scads of ideas for dads of all ages and interests and in every price range. And if you can’t find anything on my blog (folioweekly.com/ specktator) that interests you, Hickory Farms does offer overnight delivery.

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she spit up all over it. Eww. I need to get it clean. Like, really clean, not just “dab-it-with-a-lint-free-cloth clean.”

It’s a phone. You put it up to your face! And I just know it’s crawling with germs now. How can I disinfect my iPhone?

A: Oh, that is gross! However, even if your kid hadn’t aimed for your iPhone, a couple of recent studies have shown that even cellphones that haven’t been victims of 3-year-olds are “veritable reservoirs of pathogens.”

A sample of smartphones showed abnormally high numbers of coliforms, a bacteria indicating fecal contamination. So, with that in mind, you definitely want to clean your phone. A lint-free cloth and some alcohol should kill 99 percent of bacteria. But wait! Before you do that, there’s more you need to know. Using alcohol on your iPhone could ruin your screen. Check out our blog at folioweekly.com/deemable to find out what you need to do instead.

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Boas, Iguanas and Scares, Oh My! It’s turning into a zoo at the beach, and we’re not talking about the Memorial Day brawl. According to The Florida TimesUnion, an 8-foot-long boa constrictor named Alice and two 5-foot-long iguanas, Chuckles and Papaya, have escaped to enjoy the nightlife in Jacksonville Beach. If you spot the missing creatures, call Jacksonville Beach Animal Control at 247-6167 or the Jacksonville Beach Police at 270-1667.

Bouquets & Brickbats Bouquets to the late J.T. Townsend and the work of his foundation to help the disabled.

Townsend died June 4. He was 26 years old. Townsend was paralyzed while making a tackle in 2004 in a high school football game. He recently graduated from the University of North Florida with a degree in sports management while continuing to help children and adults with financial assistance and get them the medical equipment things that they needed through the work of the J.T. Townsend Foundation (jttownsendfoundation.org). He will be best remembered for his courageous spirit.

Brickbats to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for blocking Nassau Circuit Judge Brian Davis’ confirmation for a seat on the federal bench. Davis was appointed to a judgeship for the Middle District of Florida by President Barack Obama in February 2012, but he has not gotten a confirmation vote in the Senate. Rubio’s office said they are doing their “due diligence,” after several Republican senators expressed concern about Davis, according to The Florida Times-Union.

Bouquets to Marina Alley, chairwoman of Riding Into History, for leading a world-class motorcycle event May 17-18, which raised $30,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project for a fouryear total of $105,000. About 300 classic, vintage and antique motorcycles were on display at the event, which brought in about 6,000 people at the World Golf Village. Since the event started 14 years ago, it has contributed more than $300,000 to charities.

Bouquets to Arianne Leary, a University of North Florida graduate student, who recently received a $5,000 Guy Harvey Scholarship, for outstanding achievement in marine science research. Leary, a graduate research assistant in the UNF Coastal Biology program, is studying the long-term effects of oil exposure on Gulf fish after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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Ray Hollister and Tom Braun answer technology questions on their blog at folioweekly.com/deemable, on their podcast at deemable.com and on WJCT 89.9 FM Thursdays during Morning Edition. Have a question for Deemable Tech? Call 1-888-972-9868 or email them at questions@deemable.com.

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READ THE SPECKTATOR BLOG Kerry Speckman shares her unique perspective and observations on people, places and events around the First Coast and beyond. She’s the 2012 winner of Jacksonville Dancing With the Stars, so she’s got that going for her. Contact her at thespecktator@aol.com.

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Nelson Cuba, then president of the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, addresses a shift change in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office during a quarterly roll call July 2007 at the lodge on Beach Boulevard. Photo: Jarrett Baker/The Florida Times-Union

respected police officer and union leader who thought he was helping veterans or a man who schemed and conspired to pull in huge profits from an illegal gambling enterprise?

Good guy or bad guy?

Unless he agrees to a plea bargain, it will be up to a jury to decide the fate of Nelson Cuba, who faces 26 felony charges in the Allied Veterans of the World gambling scandal. The scandal resulted in the resignation of Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, a new state law outlawing gaming centers known as Internet cafés and the arrest of 57 people, including prominent Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis.

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Fraternal Order of Police, and former Vice President Robbie Freitas each face charges ranging from money-laundering to racketeering and allegedly setting up a shell company to illegally run gambling profits through the FOP Foundation.

It is likely that both men will go to trial this fall. At a hearing held May 30 in Sanford, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester told attorneys for Cuba and Freitas to return in September, because both had waived their speedy trial rights.

Cuba, 48, is well-known around Jacksonville as president of the Fraternal Order of Police, a job he has held for a decade, fighting for better pay, working conditions and pensions for police officers, and never missing an opportunity to mix it up with city officials — once threatening a boycott of Gate Petroleum, owned by then-Mayor John Peyton’s family.

“Nelson has these great thoughts of being Jimmy Hoffa or something, but those days are over,” former Mayor Jake Godbold told The Florida Times-Union in July 2009.

A review of Cuba’s personnel file, obtained under the state’s Open Records law, shows a police officer rated excellent by his superiors, but also an individual with ambition. On separate forms, he lists his long-term goals as being “promoted and elected sheriff ” and to “become union president.”

Records show Cuba took a winding route before becoming a union boss in 2003, the first Hispanic — and the first member of any minority — elected to the position.

As a 6-year-old along with his sister, mother and father, Cuba arrived South Florida in 1971 on a Freedom Flight, according to a database of Cubans who came to the United States published by the Miami Herald.

A Times-Union profile of Cuba said

his father first worked in construction before buying a food truck, and his mother was a seamstress.

Cuba graduated from Hialeah High School in 1983 and joined the Navy in 1984, where he worked as a medical corpsman in ophthalmology, according to his job application to become a police officer. He stayed in the Navy for four years and worked at a Publix warehouse in Jacksonville before being accepted at the police academy in 1989.

While in the Navy, he became a U.S. citizen in 1986.

Cuba joined the sheriff ’s office in 1990, working five years in the public housing unit. He also spent two years as an investigator for the city of Jacksonville General Counsel’s Office.

He was elected president of the Fraternal Order of Police in 2003 and was elected as Florida’s representative to the national

FOP board in 2007.

There was a time, according to the TimesUnion, that Cuba, a Republican, considered running for an elected office, possibly the City Council.

Throughout the years, Cuba has served as the full-time president of the local FOP, negotiating labor contracts for the

The local FOP group — Lodge 5-30 — represents about 3,000 active and retired Jacksonville police officers, corrections officials and bailiffs. Lodge 5-30 is the largest in Florida and the seventh largest in the U.S. If you believe prosecutors, somewhere along the way, Nelson’s American dream story turned sour. Cuba and FOP Vice President

„“Let me be clear: This investigation was not about their policing activities. NobodyÊÊ’s above the law. If we get evidence, we go after it. We always have. Nobody gets a pass,” Sheriff Rutherford said. union. Though he’s paid some $64,000 as a patrolman, the union also paid him for his work as president. Union officials did not reply to Folio Weekly’s questions about Cuba’s union salary. The city, in its contract with the FOP, guarantees the FOP 2,500 hours of pool time for union activities. Both Cuba and Freitas have been removed from their FOP posts. Freitas has retired from the police force, and Cuba is still suspended without pay.

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Nelson Cuba listens as the Jacksonville City Council goes over its proposed police budget in September 2011, which included possible cuts to the number of officers in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Photo: Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union.

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BIOGRAPHY 1964: Born in Cuba on Dec. 8.

CUBA’S CHARGES IN ALLIED VETERANS CASE 4 counts of Florida money laundering

1971: Immigrated with parents and sister to Miami.

1984-’88: U.S. Navy, served as medical corpsman. Honorable discharge.

1 count of RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization: It allows prosecutors to charge a complete criminal enterprise all at once. Prosecutors must prove that illegal acts of defendants were part of the overall enterprise.)

1986: Became a U.S. citizen.

1 count of conspiracy to commit RICO

1989: Worked at a Publix warehouse before joining the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Police Academy.

5 counts of manufacture, sale and possession

1983: Graduated from Hialeah High School.

of slot machines 5 lottery counts

1990: Began working as patrol offi cer in Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Spent five years working in public housing complex and two years assigned to city General Counsel’s Office.

2003: Elected president of Fraternal Order of Police on June 1, the first member of any minority elected to the post.

2007: Elected June 15 as Florida FOP representative on the national board.

2013: Charged with multiple counts in Allied Veterans of World scandal, along with FOP Vice President Robbie Freitas.

P.A. and the FOP Foundation. Mathis, a Jacksonville attorney, has been called the mastermind by investigators, but his attorney, Mitch Stone, said Mathis was only doing legal work for Allied Veterans. He will likely go to trial in late August.

Cuba and Freitas have been removed from their leadership roles at the FOP. Cuba has been suspended without pay; Freitas retired March 29 after almost 25 years with the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office.

“We have verified that the accounts associated with the lodge are not frozen and are in good standing. We have canceled any lines of credit extended to Nelson Cuba and Robert Freitas, and changed electronic access codes to those accounts,” wrote Acting President Steve Amos in a statement on the

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5 counts of keeping gambling houses 5 counts of money laundering

TOTAL: 26 FOP’s Facebook page. Amos said the FOP had changed door lock access codes and was working to recover all FOP property assigned to the two men.

Sheriff John Rutherford announced the arrest of the two men at a March 13 news conference.

“Let me be clear: This investigation was not about their policing activities. Nobody’s above the law. If we get evidence, we go after it. We always have. Nobody gets a pass,” Sheriff Rutherford said.

The sheriff said the investigation started in 2007, when his office began looking into a potential criminal enterprise. By 2010, investigators said it became clear that Nelson was part of a second enterprise with multiple shell companies, some of which were tied to the Allied Veterans of the World.

“Investigating a police officer is never a happy event for us. But it is critical for our mission, and to public confidence in their police, that we ensure our officers obey the law,” the sheriff said.

According to an investigator’s affidavit, leadership of Allied Veterans of the World

Nelson Cuba talks with members of the media outside a meeting with corrections officers in the Police Memorial Building in August 2012. Photo: Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union

Nelson Cuba (left) and Robbie Freitas ask for bonds during their video appearance in court March 14.

Photo: Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union

used contributions to the Fraternal Order of Police “to promote and protect itself ” in the illegal gaming conspiracy.

Records show the organization gave $90,000 to the FOP Foundation over a twoyear period. An affidavit said Cuba withdrew $420,000 as “proceeds from a gambling center” from 2009 to 2011.

Prosecutors allege that Cuba and Freitas set up a shell corporation known as Enzyme Consultants, though neither had approval of the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office to do outside consulting work. The purpose of Enzyme was to channel and conceal the nature, ownership and proceeds of illegal activity, investigators claim.

One interesting side note is the ownership of The Black Bean, a Cuban cuisine restaurant in San Marco. Reports show that Nelson Cuba, Robert Freitas and Kelly Mathis all owned an interest in the restaurant, which has since closed.

Jacksonville attorney Tad Delegal, who once served as legal adviser to the FOP, said he was shocked when Cuba was arrested and charged.

“It is very much out of character. I was really surprised by all of these allegations. I would be very surprised if all these things are true,” Delegal said.

“I’ve never seen him as someone who would try to break the law or ignore the law,” he said.

Delegal noted the Legislature did not make Internet cafés illegal until after charges were filed in the case.

He said he always knew Cuba to try to do the right thing and if he had a fault, it was his unwavering loyalty to the FOP. “I never saw any instances where he sacrificed the welfare of his members for his own personal benefit. I’ve always admired that in Nelson,” Delegal said.

He acknowledged that Nelson, a divorced father of two children, could be “hardheaded” and difficult to deal with, he said. His son, Emmanuel Cuba, is a corrections officer

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Emmanuel Cuba spoke with First Coast News about his father’s first court appearances.

“The restraints and the jail suit would suggest he’s a criminal and done bad things, but I know in my mind what’s right, what’s true,” he said.

“I just got to look past it; my dad’s not a criminal. He may have the inmate uniform on, but he’s not a criminal. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

Cuba’s attorney Warren Lindsey did not return emails or calls seeking to talk about Cuba’s case. Former mayor and current UNF President John Delaney and former State Attorney Harry Shorstein both declined to comment on Cuba. FOP leaders and its attorney Paul Daragjati did not return calls for comment.

Daragjati, who represents both the union and foundation, told the Times-Union that no evidence had been found to suggest that either organization did anything wrong.

“You have to remember that this is two individuals accused of committing improprieties on their own. We’ve yet to find any evidence that FOP funds were misused,” he said.

While Nelson earned several commendations from police officials, mainly for making arrests, his record lists four citizen complaints and one internal complaint. The most recent complaint, registered in April 2011, involved allegations of rudeness. According to police records, Cuba received a letter from his supervisor about the incident.

One of the complaints, on Aug. 23, 1993, was an internal complaint of Cuba’s “unbecoming conduct.” It was not sustained.

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to Cuba.

JSO spokesperson Melissa Bujeda, when asked for copies of those letters, said they had been purged and were no longer available, according to state law.

Cuba might be best known for his fiery, gofor-the-throat negotiating tactics.

“That is part of his persona,” Delegal said.

Last October, the Fraternal Order of Police refused to negotiate with the city on the mayor’s proposed pension plan. Cuba told the city it must negotiate with the Police & Fire Pension Fund.

Moments after a negotiating session began, he stopped the meeting, saying, “I’m done talking about it. Take it to the courts.”

A mediator suggested they resume talking, and it eventually led to the agreement recently announced by Mayor Alvin Brown and union leaders.

After Cuba was removed, the city, the FOP, the firefighters’ union and the Police & Fire Pension Fund reached a deal on pensions, which is now being considered by the Jacksonville City Council.

The Times-Union is suing Mayor Alvin Brown and the PFPF, alleging the pension talks violated the state’s Open Record Law. In 2009, when the FOP and the city were negotiating a new contract, Cuba threatened a boycott of Gate Petroleum, which is owned by former Mayor John Peyton’s family. The then-mayor responded that he would not be bullied, according to the Times-Union.

Backlash from city officials and former mayors resulted in Cuba backpedaling on his threat.

Delegal said he has watched Cuba become a more seasoned and effective leader, making fewer missteps.

“I’ve seen him mature through the years,” Delegal said.

“Nelson is very driven. He believes strongly in what he believes.”

“I had differences with him over style, policy and decisions, but I never questioned his loyalty to his members,” Delegal said.

Cuba outlined his philosophy in a negotiating session to the city, blasting plans to change the pension system.

“If we’re blessed enough to make it through this career and survive, then we were hoping that this community, this city, would keep their promise to us and give us what we’ve earned,” Cuba told city negotiators. “It’s not a handout, we’re not welfare recipients.

We’ve worked for this, we’ve earned it and, in my opinion, we deserve everything we get.”

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undreds of people went to the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts on June 9 to watch “Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries.”

The crowd had a blast watching Scooby and pals arrive in the Mystery Machine and interact with the crowd.

Text and photos by Marty F. Nemec 1. Alex and Melanie Kim, Peter and Josh Smith 2. Bella Powles, Katherine McManus 3. Brielle and Jimmy Gonzalez 4. Chelsea, Colt and Alex Hernandez 5. Brody, Erin and Calen Smith 6. Emily and Arial Taylor 7. Haley and Bradley Edgin, Samantha Usoff

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Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week

BENEFIT NEWSROOM STREET FIGHT

Media types from all over have been training for years in the deadly art of dodgeball. Folio Weekly is ready to face Action News, First Coast News, Jacksonville Magazine, News 4 Jax, the Spinnaker, WOKV and WJCT, after training in the five Ds of dodgeball — dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge! These matches will benefit the Police Athletic League College Scholarship Fund and are completely unsanctioned by the American Dodgeball Association … of America. 6 p.m.

June 15, PAL, 3450 Monument Road, Arlington, $7, facebook.com/newsroomstreetfight.

HIP-HOP KENDRICK LAMAR

A photo uploaded to 50 Cent’s Instagram last week shook up the interwebs as Kendrick Lamar appeared in photos with Eminem, 50 Cent and others. Speculation of a collaborative effort with Lamar on Marshall Mathers’ upcoming album couldn’t be stopped. Until then, Northeast Florida fans can witness Lamar with the Black Hippy crew — ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Kid Ink. 6:30 p.m. June 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., $35-$59.50, 209-0367, staugamphitheatre.com.

MUSIC FESTIVAL SEAWALK MUSIC FESTIVAL

ALTERNATIVE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

This festival is thinking local — with Northeast Florida musicians, food trucks and vendors kicking off the summer. First Coast favorites Mama Blue, Danka, Rachael Warfield, Be Easy, Fusebox Funk (pictured) and Split Tone are scheduled to perform. Noon-10 p.m. June 15, Seawalk Pavilion, where Beach Boulevard meets the ocean, free, communityfirstseawalkfest.com.

Ignore the British spelling. The mysterious quintet formed in L.A. in 2012 and released their first studio album, “I Love You.” in April.

Rolling Stone wrote that the album delivered “moody, atmospheric rock tracks” with the band unleashing “head-bobbing kicks.” The song “Sweater Weather” hit No. 1 on the Billboard’s alternative charts. The Neighbourhood goes for it with support from 1975. 8 p.m. June 15, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $10, 398-7496. Photo: Paradigm Agency

THEATER

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL

Successful on the screen and Broadway, the revenge comedy is working a Jacksonville stage now. With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, the musical centers on three women who take on their lecherous boss. Shirley Sacks directs this production with Kathy Sanders (from left), Sara Beth Gerard and Christine Dumars. 7:30 p.m.

June 13 and 20, 8 p.m. June 14-15 and 21-22 and 2 p.m. June 16, Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $25, 396-4425, theatrejax.com.

TASTE JAX TRUCKIES FOOD TRUCK CHAMPIONSHIP

The truckies are rolling in to compete and raise money for Second Harvest North Florida. On The Fly Chef Andrew Ferenc seeks to defend his titles as Jax Truckies champion and the People’s Choice winner at the second annual competition. More than 20 food trucks will cook up some surprises while taking aim at discriminating taste buds. 6-10 p.m. June 15, Burrito Gallery, 21 E. Adams St., Downtown, 598-2922, facebook.com/jaxtruckies.

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t was cause for excitement when it was announced Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight” trilogy) would be involved in the development of the Superman reboot “Man of Steel.” Conversely, it was cause for dread when Zack Snyder came on as the director, specifically because Snyder, though masterful with action sequences (“300,” “Watchmen”), often struggles to tell a cohesive story.

Unfortunately, Snyder still hasn’t figured it out.

Though Nolan retained a producer credit and his “Dark Knight” scribe David S. Goyer wrote “Man of Steel,” Snyder’s film is a loud, relentless assault on the eyes and ears. Aspiring to only slam-bang action when themes of morality, compassion and love are in play but not developed is an injustice to both the story’s comic book origins and the moviegoer who deserves more.

Although the costumes, production design and visual effects are strong, the picture has far too much surplus for its own good. What could have been essential character development with a young Clark Kent (Cooper Tymberline (age 9) and Dylan Sprayberry (age 13) and his parents (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane) plays like an ill-fitted, forced excuse for action set in Kansas. “Daily Planet” editor Perry White (Laurence Fishburne) serves no function, and Lois Lane (Amy Adams) is nothing more than an unnecessary accessory. They’re here because they’re supposed to be here, not because they need to be here, and there’s a huge difference between the two.

Worse, these extra characters bloat the movie to 143 minutes. The core story is Clark/Superman (Henry Cavill), after being sent to Earth by his father (Russell Crowe) prior to the destruction

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of their home planet of Krypton, discovers that surviving Kryptonian Gen. Zod (Michael Shannon) is planning to wipe out mankind and restart Krypton. Clark, having lived with humans for 33 years and believing in their capacity for good, must stop Zod. To his credit, Snyder apparently used every cent of the $225 million budget, as the action scenes are fast and effective. Highlights include saving Lois from a fall (of course), a knock-down, drag-out fight with Zod and Faora-Ul (Antje Traue) in a small town, and the conclusion, which almost completely destroys Metropolis.

If you’re hoping this will pay respectful homage to prior “Superman” movies, think again.

This is a total reboot, and although you’ll see signs for “Smallville” and note that a truck has a “LexCorp” logo, don’t expect much else taken directly from the Christopher Reeve movies or Bryan Singer’s 2006 misfire, “Superman Returns.”

Also, John Williams’ memorable score has been replaced by Hans Zimmer’s overbearing orchestrations, and for those who care, I’m told the story strays pretty far from its comic book origins. And no, there’s no “kneel before Zod” either. “Man of Steel” didn’t have to include these elements, but its overall ineffectiveness leads us to think of what it could have done to be better.

One more thing: Don’t stay for the end credits.

Though it’s long been speculated that “Man of Steel” is Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ first step toward a “Justice League” movie (which would include Batman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman), a la Marvel’s “The Avengers,” there is no indication of it here.

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The Florida Theatre and Ponte Vedra Concert Hall offer summer movies series of their own, with ticket prices cheaper than what you often find at movie chains.

The Florida Theatre’s Summer Movie Classics screen 2 p.m. Sundays, featuring “From Russia With Love” June 30, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” July 7, “The Gay Divorcée” July 14, “On the Waterfront” July 21, “American Graffiti” July 28, “The Great Escape” Aug. 4, “Bye Bye Birdie” Aug. 11, “Charade” Aug. 18, “It Happened One Night” Aug. 25 and ending with “Singin’ in the Rain” Sept. 1, $7.50 or $40 for 10 admissions, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

Tuesday Night at the Movies, presented by WJCT’s Electro Lounge and Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, continues with “Play It Again, Sam” June 18, “Rear Window” June 25 and “The Big Lebowski” July 2. Tickets are $5 at the door, 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com.

SPACE JAM (1996) 8:30 p.m. June 12

The plot: Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes characters are captured and their only chance at freedom comes from winning a basketball game. They turn to NBA legend Michael Jordan for help.

Classic line: “Thanks, guys. You got a lot of … a lot of … well, whatever it is, you got a lot of it.” — Michael Jordan IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) 8:30 p.m. June 14

The plot: A spoiled heiress is on the run from her controlling father and is helped by an out-of-work reporter, who’s just using her for a juicy story.

Classic line: “Any guy that’d fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.” — Peter Warne (Clark Gable) ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1994) 8:30 p.m. June 19

The plot: The key to a son being reunited with his father lies in the worst team in baseball winning the pennant. As hopeless as it may seem at first, the team receives some supernatural help on their way to victory.

Classic line: “My dad says that will only happen if the Angels win the pennant. The baseball team, I mean. So maybe you could help them win a little.” — Roger Bomman (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)

We had faces!” — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) TANGLED (2010) 8:30 p.m. June 26

PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (1960)

The plot: Disney’s animated take on the famous story of Rapunzel and her quest to escape Mother Gothel, who aims to use Rapunzel’s magic hair to stay young forever.

Classic line: “That’s the funny thing about birthdays, they’re kind of an annual thing.”

— Rapunzel (Mandy Moore)

8:30 p.m. July 12

CASABLANCA (1942) 8:30 p.m. June 28

The plot: An American romantic classic about the reunion of an ex-freedom fighter and the woman who deserted him when Nazis invaded Paris.

Classic line: “Oh, he’s just like any other man, only more so.” — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) THE SANDLOT (1993) 8:30 p.m. July 3

The plot: A kid moves to a new town and finds lifelong friends and unforgettable adventures through the game of baseball.

Classic line: “Anyone who wants to be a can’thack-it pantywaist who wears their mama’s bra, raise your hand.” — Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar) FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) 8:30 p.m. July 5

The plot: A soldier who’s also a good boxer is transferred to Hawaii, slapdab in the middle of adultery, bullying and, eventually, the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Classic line: “Nobody ever lies about being lonely.” — Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift)

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The plot: A demented former silent-fi lm actress meets a writer she thinks can get her back into the movie business, but things get out of hand and lead to insanity and murder.

Classic line: “We didn’t need dialogue.

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THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)

The plot: After deciding to move his family to the countryside to escape the bustle of Manhattan, a man gets a new job as a theater critic. He’s thrown right back into Manhattan, which eventually threatens his marriage and the idyllic country life.

Classic line: “Tonight, when the curtain rises on ‘So Passion Dies’ I shall be far, far away. And, dear reader, may I wish you the same good fortune.” — Alfred North (Richard Haydn) BLANK CHECK (1994) 8:30 p.m. July 17

The plot: A kid is accidentally given a blank check, which he fi lls out for $1 million.

Surprisingly, he gets the money, but now gangsters are after him.

Classic line: “I worked hard to steal that money and you went and gave it to some zit-faced little kid?” — Carl Quigley (Miguel Ferrer) DRIVING MISS DAISY 8:30 p.m. July 19

The plot: An elderly Jewish woman in the 1950s gets an African-American driver, and the two slowly become close friends.

Classic line: “Sometimes I think you ain’t got the sense God gave a lemon!” — Idella (Esther Rolle) HOOK (1991) 8:30 p.m. July 24

The plot: When Capt. Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan has to return to Neverland and save them.

Classic line: “If you can’t image yourself being Peter Pan, you won’t be Peter Pan, so eat up.”

— Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts)

8:30 p.m. July 10

The plot: A sad young boy who’s picked on by bullies finds a magical book that takes him to a fantasyland in need of a hero: him.

Classic line: “Because people who have no

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Classic line: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” — Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) DESPICABLE ME (2010) 8:30 p.m. July 31

The plot: One of the world’s greatest villains plans to steal the moon and aims to use three orphan girls to do it, but to his surprise, he finds the girls to be his biggest obstacle.

Classic line: “That book was accidentally destroyed maliciously.” — Gru (Steve Carell)

their fi lm is turned into a musical and she can’t sing.

Classic line: “What do they think I am?

Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than — than — than Calvin Coolidge!

Put together!” — Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen)

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St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine 209-0367, staugamphitheatre.com Amphitheatre parking is free on movie nights; concessions are available. Moviegoers may dress in film-related costumes.

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THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)

The plot: A woman drops her fiancé’s son off at her family’s summer cottage as she goes off on a trip. When she returns, she finds he’s bonding with her dad in a way she never could.

Classic line: “Wanna dance, or would you rather just suck face?” — Norman (Henry Fonda)

8 p.m. June 28

THE GREAT OUTDOORS (1988) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 7

The plot: A man takes his family for a nice vacation in the woods, but plans are ruined when his brother-in-law pops up with his strange family.

Classic line: “Why do Chet’s kids look at him like he’s Zeus and my kids look at me ike I’m a rack of lawn tools at Sears?” — Roman Craig (Dan Aykroyd) FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (1991) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 9

The plot: A woman having trouble in her marriage meets an elderly woman, who tells her a story that changes her life forever.

Classic line: “I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.”

— Ninny Threadgone (Jessica Tandy) HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (1989) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 14

The plot: A scientist builds a miniaturizing machine that ends up shrinking his and his neighbor’s kids. After he accidentally throws them out with the trash, they have quite the adventure.

Classic line: “Nick, I’ve got six hours to get home, get big and get to the mall. Now get moving.” — Amy Szalinski (Amy O’Neill) SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) 8:30 p.m. Aug. 16

The plot: An onscreen romantic pair hits trouble when the girl mistakes the script for reality. It gets more troublesome when

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The plot: In the future, a totalitarian nation holds a battle royale with an army made up of children from all 12 of its districts. When a little girl is selected, her 16-year-old sister Katniss volunteers to take her place.

Classic line: “There’s 24 of us, Gale. Only one comes out.” — Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (2012) 8 p.m. July 12

The plot: The immortal Guardians join forces for the first time to stop an evil spirit from taking over the world.

Classic line: “That dream is over! It is time for fear to rule the world!” — Pitch (Jude Law) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) 8 p.m. Aug. 2

The plot: A blacksmith joins a quirky pirate to save his kidnapped love and the last remaining piece of Aztec gold.

Classic line: “Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly … stupid.” — Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (2013) 8 p.m. Aug. 23

The plot: A circus magician gets swept from Kansas to the Land of Oz where in his attempt to become the great and powerful Oz, he becomes a better person as well.

Classic line: “I don’t want to be a good man … I want to be a great one.” — Oz (James Franco) Marty Nemec themail@folioweekly.com

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Watching the stars parody themselves in perverted and witty ways is worth a watch, but the stretched-out sketch runs out of ideas THIS IS THE END **G@

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t’s fitting that “This Is the End” starts with a party, because watching it feels like you’re attending one. Unfortunately, it’s one of those parties that loses steam early but forces you to stay on the promise that it’ll pick up again later.

It doesn’t.

Certainly, a wild party at James Franco’s house with all his comedian friends drinking and ingesting various substances sounds like a blast. And it is for a while. Watching Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Franco and more play variations of themselves is great fun for a time, as they crack jokes on each other’s work and personalities.

In some cases, such as a coked-out, Rihanna’s butt-slapping Michael Cera, the character is the total opposite of Cera (“Juno”) in real life.

In other instances, let’s just say some actors didn’t have to go too far to find their characters.

Regardless, kudos to all for not taking themselves seriously and having fun.

The film also includes cameos from Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Krumholtz, Jason Segel, Martin Starr, Kevin Hart, Paul Rudd and Channing Tatum.

With the party in full swing, the apocalypse dawns. Sinkholes, raging fires and vicious demons outside leave Rogen, Baruchel, Hill, Robinson, Franco and Danny McBride stuck inside the house with limited supplies. The banter is guy talk to the extreme, which is largely funny, particularly a scene in which Franco yells at McBride for ruining one of his magazines (use your imagination). There’s also selfishness over the food and water, and long-latent tension between Baruchel and everyone manifests.

They get a few guests, including Emma Watson, who hilariously freaks out after hearing only part of a conversation the men have in the

hall. When the movie, which was co-written and directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is this perverted and witty, it’s a success.

However, the direction is aimless. The religious themes feel forced, and the resolution isn’t satisfying. The movie is based on a 2007 short called “Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse,” and more work is needed to successfully flesh out the story to feature length.

This is most noticeable as the one-note scenario of the guys stuck in the house begins to play out; the situation can only be twisted so many ways until Rogen and Goldberg run out of ideas. No doubt, a number of scenes were left on the cutting room floor, but more should have been left in the interest of pacing.

The movie is 107 minutes, but would’ve played better at 95.

There are still some funny moments, but they play like sketches rather than part of a coherent story. While bored, the guys use Franco’s camera from “127 Hours” to shoot their version of “Pineapple Express 2.” It’s funny, especially if you get the joke. But it also could’ve been cut out, and the movie would not have suffered. If a scene doesn’t absolutely have to be there, it shouldn’t be there.

“This Is the End” is hilarious and gross and awesome for about 45 minutes, then stuck in neutral the rest of the way. Still, there are enough laughs throughout for it to warrant a moderate recommendation, particularly if you’re familiar with these actors and have a notion that them ripping into each other (sometimes literally) will be amusing..

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BATMAN SUPERMAN GREEN LANTERN AQUAMAN

NOW SHOWING AFTER EARTH *G@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Clay Theatre, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace After the Earth has been nearly destroyed yet again by pollution, mankind has settled on a distant world named Nova Prime and is forced to battle the Ursa, giant alien bugs.

Cypher Raige (Will Smith) has the ability to suppress all fear, which the Ursa can sniff out. Cypher’s efforts to bond with his son, Kitai (Jaden Smith), involve a space journey that lands them crashed on Earth. Kitai must help save himself and his dad.

THE CROODS **G@ Rated PG • Regal Avenues A family of missing links is forced from their cave and into a whole new way of life – with fire, tools and shoes.

The animated comedy’s cast voices include Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.

EPIC **@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Clay Theatre, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace The story, what there is of it, follows troubled teen Mary Katherine (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), or M.K. to her friends, as she visits her science-geek father Bomba (Jason Sudeikis). Her mother died years before, and Bomba’s convinced that tiny warrior people live in a forest near his home. M.K. chases her father’s three-legged dog into the woods, where she sees falling leaves that glow – when she touches them, she shrinks to a miniscule size. Co-starring Beyoncé Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson and Christoph Waltz.

FAST & FURIOUS 6 ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace The “Fast” franchise is all about custom cars, action sequences and now-familiar characters, including antihero Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and ex-cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker). In “Fast & Furious 6”, there are dozens of cars, constant action, an over-the-top villain and nearly every character who wasn’t killed in a previous movie. Much of the plot centers around a character who’s back from the dead.

Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), the supercop introduced in “Fast Five” to be the foil for the popular gang of street racers, now wants to team up with Dominic, Brian and the rest of the gang to catch megacriminal Owen Shaw (Luke Evans).

THE GREAT GATSBY **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace It’s 1922, and humble, naïve Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a bond salesman in New York City, lives on Long Island next door to the sprawling mansion of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Jay’s using Nick, whose cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) was once Jay’s love – he hasn’t seen her in five years. Daisy’s married to Tom (Joel Edgerton), a philandering millionaire whose affair with crazy golddigger Myrtle (Isla Fisher) is well known. At 143 minutes, it’s 20 minutes too long, and it’s a drag to have boring Nick narrate. He’s not compelling, his innocence has little perspective of value, and Maguire is forced to play down Nick’s charisma. It’s a shame, too – lost in the ennui are fine performances from Edgerton, Mulligan and DiCaprio.

THE HANGOVER PART III *G@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace What a stale, sad way to end a trilogy. In “The Hangover Part III,” the follow-up to the hilarious 2009 original and the

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Alan (Zach Galifianakis, left), Phil (Bradley Cooper, center) and Stu (Ed Helms) unite in “The Hangover Part III,” directed by Todd Phillips. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures hit-and-miss 2011 sequel, an exotic animal is again featured (remember the tiger?). This time, Alan (Zach Galifianakis), an immature goon whose charms were exhausted at the end of the first film, has bought a giraffe. If you’ve seen the trailers, you know what happens. Unfortunately, the rest of “Part III” doesn’t get much better. After Alan’s father (Jeffrey Tambor) dies from a heart attack brought on by the giraffe incident, it’s decided he should spend time in a mental hospital. But he’ll go only if fellow Wolfpackers Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) tag along.

THE INTERNSHIP Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, Sun-Ray Cinema The dynamic duo of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson is back, this time looking for a new career instead of crashing weddings. After being let go from their jobs – apparently some digital device can replace them – Billy (Vaughn) and Nick (Wilson) gain an internship at Google. Other new interns, however, are whipsmart technophiles who can outclick them at every turn. The ex-salesmen make us laugh while they make fools of themselves.

IDDARAMMAYILATHO *G@@ Not Rated • AMC Regency It’s an action-comedy-romance starring Allu Arjun, Brahmanandam and Steven Dasz. In Telugu.

IRON MAN 3 ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace After saving the world in “The Avengers,” Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) suffers from anxiety. More villains are lining up to challenge him, including The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), who seems to enjoy killing innocent people, and scientist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce). Downey keeps the story grounded and the action soaring as Stark/Iron Man, a genius casting decision that’s carried four films.

MAN OF STEEL **@@ Rated PG-13 • Opens June 14 Reviewed in this issue.

NOW YOU SEE ME ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, San Marco Theatre Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco star as four street magicians recruited by a mysterious hooded figure. In return for the fame and notoriety, the Four Horsemen must perform public magic acts in which they pull off three spectacular heists, each involving millions of dollars. They also face the FBI – led by Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Interpol agent Alma Dray (Melanie Laurent) – and are being pursued by opportunist Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), who makes a nice living debunking magicians.

THE PURGE **G@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Fleming

Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace Set in the near future, America has sanctioned a 12-hour period during which all crime is legal. On that night, James Sandin (Ethan Hawke), his wife Mary (Lena Headey) and their kids are held hostage.

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS ***G Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, World Golf Village IMAX Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew are “propelled into an epic chess game of life and death.” Joining Spock (Zachary Quinto), Bones (Karl Urban), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Sulu (John Cho) and Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) are Dr. Carol Marcus (Alice Eve) and an elusive villain, played by Benedict Cumberbatch.

THIS IS THE END **G@ Rated R • Opens June 12 Reviewed in this issue.

OTHER FILMS HONEYDRIPPER Gypsy’s Corner Bar offers dinner and a movie, featuring “Honeydripper,” about musicians in 1950s Alabama, when blues gave birth to rock ’n’ roll, 8 p.m. June 12 (dinner 7 p.m.) and 7:45 p.m. June 26 (dinner 6:30 p.m.) at Gypsy’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $8 plus meal price, 823-8700, stjohnsculture.com.

MOVIES BY THE BAY Ripley’s St. Augustine and St. Augustine Municipal Marina host a free summer movie series – with “Space Jam” 8:30 p.m. June 12, “It Happened One Night” 8:30 p.m. June 14 and “Angels in the Outfield” 8:30 p.m. June 19 – on the marina green space beside Bayfront Mini Golf, 111 Avenida Menendez, facebook.com/saintaugustineripleys.

JACKSONVILLE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT The indie filmmaking competition that requires producing a movie in less than two days – for most teams, that means no sleeping – holds its kickoff 6-7 p.m. June 14 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown.

Absolute final deadline for filmmakers to drop off their movies is 7:30 p.m. June 16. Registration is $175. The finished

products are screened June 18-20. jacksonville@48hourfilm.com, 48hourfilm.com/jacksonville.

THE GODFATHER’S DAY FILM & FEAST Treat the father figure in your life to a screening of “The Godfather,” along with Italian-themed fare, like antipasto, lasagna and cannolis; $30 for food and film; $7.50 for just film. Vegan options are available (but ya gotta leave the cannoli). 1 p.m. June 16 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0047, sunraycinema.com.

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES WJCT’s “Electro Lounge” continues its summer movie series with “Play It Again, Sam” 7:30 p.m. June 18, “Rear Window” 7:30 p.m. June 25, and “The Big Lebowski” 7:30 p.m. July 2 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra, $5, 209-0399. pvconcerthall.com.

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL The 1983 classic is shown 2 and 7 p.m. June 19 at Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., Southside, 998-2122.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME IMAX THEATRE “Star Trek Into Darkness: An IMAX 3D Experience” is screened along with “The Last Reef 3D,” “Flight of the Butterflies,” “Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West” and “To The Arctic 3D” at World Golf Hall of Fame Village IMAX Theatre, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine. “Man of Steel” starts June 14. 940-IMAX, worldgolfimax.com.

POT BELLY’S CINEMA “The Company You Keep” and “Safe Haven” are shown at Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 829-3101.

NEW ON DVD & BLU-RAY

OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Sam Raimi directs this adventure back to Oz to discover how the great wizard became the man he is. Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a magician in Kansas, is thrown into the Land of Oz and left to find out who is good and who is evil when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams).

SNITCH John Matthews’ (Dwayne Johnson) son is facing a 10-year sentence for a drug-related crime that he didn’t commit.

In order to save his son from prison, Matthews makes a deal with the DEA to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel.

AREA THEATERS

AMELIA ISLAND Carmike 7, 1132 S. 14th St., Fernanddina Beach, 261-9867 ARLINGTON & REGENCY AMC Regency 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., 264-3888 BAYMEADOWS & MANDARIN Regal Avenues 20, 9525 Philips Highway, 538-3889 BEACHES Regal Beach Blvd. 18, 14051 Beach Blvd., 992-4398 FIVE POINTS Sun-Ray Cinema@5Points, 1028 Park St., 359-0047 GREEN COVE SPRINGS Clay Theatre, 326 Walnut St., 284-9012 NORTHSIDE Regal River City 14, River City Marketplace, 12884 City Center Blvd., 757-9880

ORANGE PARK AMC Orange Park 24, 1910 Wells Road, (888) AMC-4FUN Carmike 12, 1820 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 621-0221 SAN MARCO San Marco Theatre, 1996 San Marco Blvd., 396-4845 SOUTHSIDE Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., 998-2122 ST. AUGUSTINE Epic Theatres, 112 Theatre Drive, 797-5757 IMAX Theater, World Golf Village, 940-IMAX Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., 829-3101

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Tyson Vogel’s propulsive drumming paired with Adam Stephens’ melodic guitar work and lyrically dense storytelling has made Two Gallants one of the heaviest indie-rock bands in the nation. Photo: Eric Ryan Anderson

Profound Purists

San Francisco duo reboots its lyrically dense, sonically intense version of indie rock TWO GALLANTS with BRONCHO 9 p.m. June 18 The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach Tickets: $13 460-9311, originalcafe11.com

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ike the many American power duos that rose to prominence in the early 2000s, San Francisco’s Two Gallants traffic in an artistically pure, sonically intense version of rock ’n’ roll. Sure, Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel pull from Scots-Irish folk music, primitive country-blues and Bright Eyes-style emo-punk, particularly on their early albums like 2004’s “Throes” and 2006’s “What the Toll Tells.”

But relying on nothing more than Stephens’ melodic guitar work and lyrically dense storytelling and Vogel’s propulsive drumming, Two Gallants have matured from full-throated folk revivalists to one of the heaviest indie-rock bands in the nation. The duo’s latest album, last year’s “The Bloom and the Blight,” even inches toward metal territory, giving fans of straight-up rock vigor plenty to latch onto in our current electro-drenched musical world.

Folio Weekly chatted with Stephens about Two Gallants’ five-year hiatus, the individuality of songs and how the band’s San Francisco hometown has changed for the worse.

Folio Weekly: You and Tyson took five years off between 2007’s “Two Gallants” and last year’s “The Bloom and the Blight.” Was it hard for you two to find your groove again?

Adam Stephens: I don’t think it took too long. We’ve played the old songs so much that they’re written in our brains, so it was easy to step back into that. And we started working on new stuff as soon as we got back together.

It took a little bit of adjusting to get the whole songwriting process down again. But [“The Bloom and the Blight”] came together pretty quick. Now we’re looking forward to recording

a new album as soon as we get home from tour.

F.W.: Critics hailed “The Bloom and the Blight” as much heavier than your past bluesand folk-based work. Will the next record differ from that?

A.S.: Each one of our albums has gone in a different direction. As the new songs are coming together, they seem to be similarly pretty loud. But I don’t know. I put more value in each song as an individual that stands alone — some of them just happen to develop at the same time and end up on the same record, which are just a collection of thoughts that don’t have to be completely cohesive.

F.W.: As a duo, is your songwriting process 100 percent democratic — and 100 percent smooth?

A.S.: I write pretty much all the lyrics, but when we do get together, I’d say we’re pretty fortunate in that there’s only two of us. And we seem to see eye-to-eye on everything — both of us tend to agree on where a song should go.

F.W.: Have you and Tyson always operated in the straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll vein?

A.S.: I don’t really think of our music as straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll. A lot of our earlier stuff was far more influenced by blues, country, traditional Americana and old-timey music. And we’ve got a lot of long, depressing ballads as well that are more based in traditional Irish and Scottish music. Some of it’s heavier metal and punk-ish, but we haven’t drifted too far afield — we don’t get too jazzy or electronic.

I also don’t like to put limitations on where we can go in the future. But we like to play our instruments the way we know how — to challenge ourselves but also do what feels natural. We’re not going to pretend to play music that we don’t understand. So that’ll probably dictate where we go from here.

F.W.: Everything you and Tyson play — even the ballads — has a momentum and drive to it. Has that always existed naturally for Two Gallants?

A.S.: I wouldn’t say it took any conscious working out. Everything that we’ve done has happened pretty naturally without too much planning or intention. We started playing music because we loved to play music; we didn’t start a band to start a band. And everything’s followed in that same ethos — just doing what’s natural and doing it for fun.

F.W.: You haven’t changed much over the years, but your hometown of San Francisco has, right?

A.S.: Yeah, I hate to be negative, but it’s defi nitely changed for the worse without a doubt in my mind. San Francisco has become kind of Manhattanized, turning into this very cosmopolitan and desirable place to live. And a lot of the musicians and artists that flocked to the city between the 1960s and ’90s aren’t really welcome anymore. That’s pretty depressing, because both of us were born and raised in the city and have a lot of love for San Francisco. But it attracts a different crowd now, and the city has suffered for it, in my opinion.

F.W.: Are you excited to come back to Florida for the first time since 2006?

A.S.: Definitely. I remember St. Augustine being pretty cool and pretty fun. But I don’t have many expectations beyond the swampyass heat.

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CONCERTS THIS WEEK

BILLY IDOL Adorably sneering English rocker who gave us “Rebel Yell� arrives 6 p.m. June 12 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $35-$65, 209-0367.

NIGHT BEDS, JENNY O Nashville indie rockers play all night long 8 p.m. June 12 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $10, 398-7496.

THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Smooth sounds of guitar, violin and harmonica, 9 p.m. June 12 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, 353-4686.

JERRY CASTLE Rock ‘n’ roll/country music star from Nashville, June 12 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, 434-3475.

DONAVON FRANKENREITER California surf rocker croons 8 p.m. June 13 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $20, 246-2473.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Swedish folksinger-songwriter is head and shoulders above the rest, 9 p.m. June 13 at The Original CafĂŠ Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $20, 460-9311.

CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA Big Pineapple plays 7 p.m. June 13 under the oaks at Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn, between Cathedral Place and King Street, St. Augustine. The free concerts continue through Sept. 3.

Bring lounge chairs. Alcohol is prohibited.

TONY O BAND The funk, blues and soul sounds are played 9 p.m. June 13 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, free, 277-8010.

GRAVITY A, FORMER CHAMPIONS The Beastie Boys tribute band makes its way on stage 9 p.m.

June 13 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $6, 434-3475.

MURIEL ANDERSON One of the world’s foremost finger-style guitarists and harpguitarists plays 8 p.m. June 13 at European Street CafÊ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $15, 399-1740.

DJ CLAY, ANYBODY KILLA Record producer, rapper and DJ from Detroit appears June 13 at Brewster’s Pit, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10, 223-9850.

7TH STREET BAND High-energy jazz group, 10 p.m. June 14 at Mojo No. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 381-6670.

DAVID WAX MUSEUM Mexo-Americana folk rockers hit the stage 8 p.m. June 14 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $16.82, 353-6067.

THE SH-BOOMS Don’t miss the 10-piece band perform their soul tunes 9 p.m.

June 14 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $6, 434-3475.

LEGIT, JUSTICE, SO SERIOUS, BLAINE BITCHES, PINKYKILLA The talented eight-piece band plays its mix of modern-day and vintage music 8 p.m. June 14 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

PRIMER 55, ENDO, PSEUDOCIDAL The American nu metal band appears 7 p.m. June 14 at Brewster’s Roc Bar, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10-$20, 223-9850.

FREDDY’S FINEST The funky, soul and blues band performs 9:30 p.m. June 14 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, $5, 277-8010.

KTG Local band plays Motown, 7-9 p.m. June 14, Cummer

Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside.

Members $10; nonmembers $20; $400 reserved table for 10 includes a gourmet picnic basket, 889-6038.

SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES AC/DC tribute band takes the stage 8 p.m. June 14 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $10, 246-2473.

A BEACH FOR EVERYBODY BENEFIT: Leah Sykes & Arbor Park The benefit concert — seeking to raise funds for handicapped access via a boardwalk to Jax Beach — is held 8-11 p.m.

June 15 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., Westside, 388-7807, $10-$14.

COMMUNITY FIRST SEAWALK MUSIC FESTIVAL: DANKA, BE EASY, RACHAEL WARFIELD, FUSEBOX FUNK, SPLIT TONE, MAMA BLUE A new music project for Jax Beach showcases talented local musicians, food and arts and crafts, noon June 15 at Seawalk Pavilion, oceanfront Jax Beach, free.

SLIPPERY WHEN WET The high-energy talents of the Bon Jovi tribute band are evident, 9 p.m. June 15 at The Standard, 200 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $10, 274-2090.

SATURDAY JUNE 15

CALL CLUB FOR LINEUP FRIDAY JUNE 21

ANBERLIN CAMPFIRE OK/ STARS IN STEREO SATURDAY JUNE 22

PAPADOSIO STOKESWOOD WEDNESDAY JUNE 26

MIKE PINTO NATTY VIBES/3 LEGGED FOX WEDNESDAY JULY 3

SALTWATER GRASS

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Men’s Night Out Beer Pong 9pm Free Pool DJ BG ALL U CAN EAT CRABLEGS Texas Hold ’Em STARTS AT 7 P.M. HAPPY HOUR ALL NIGHT BAR BINGO 6PM KIDS EAT FREE FROM 5 P.M. TO 9 P.M. BUY 10 WINGS GET 10 WINGS FREE 1/2 PRICED APPETIZERS (BAR ONLY) 5 P.M.-CLOSE WORKIN’ MAN’S BASS TOURNAMENT OPEN MIC NITE 9PM 1/2 PRICED DRINKS 10 P.M-12. A.M. MILE TRAIN 9:30pm 1/2 PRICE APPS-FRI (BAR ONLY) 4-7PM DECK MUSIC 5 P.M.-9 P.M.

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AUTHORITY ZERO BALLYHOO,

VERSUS THE WORLD UPCOMINGS 6/23: Dirty Heads/Expendables 7/12: Ghost Owl (ex-P-Groove) 7/14: The Maine 7/19: Andrew McMahon 7/25: Passafire/Stick Figure 7/29: Chimaira 8/30: Iration 9/17: Clutch/The Sword 9-26: Gramatik 9-28: Zach Deputy/Big Something 10-2: Greensky Bluegrass 10-18: They Might Be Giants

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THE RIP CURRENTS One of Jacksonville’s premiere surf rock bands, 7 p.m. June 15 at LandShark Café, 1728 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 241-0705.

HERD OF WATTS The five-piece outfit brings the influences of The Black Keys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, 10 p.m. June 15 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, $5, 277-8010.

BRONCHO Oklahoma garage pop band performs 8 p.m. June 15 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067.

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, 1975 California alternative rockers knock down the doors 8 p.m.

June 15 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $10, 398-7496.

THE NATURAL TRUTH The hard-hitting punchlines, meaningful content and smooth sounds are heard June 15 at Ritz Theatre, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555.

BREAD & BUTTER One of Jacksonville’s premiere choices for entertainment plays June 15 at Mojo No. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 381-6670.

CONRAD OBERG A rare blues-rocking acoustic performance, 8 p.m. June 15 at European Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., Southside, $12, 398-1717.

DRAGONETTE Toronto electronica blasts 8 p.m. June 17 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $15, 398-7496.

SHANA FALANA Brooklyn experimental psych-pop, 8 p.m. June 17 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $5-$7.

TWO GALLANTS, BRONCHO San Francisco folk duo, 9 p.m. June 18 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $13, 460-9311.

DESTROYER OF LIGHT Metal heads from Austin, Texas, rock the dark 7 p.m. June 18 at Atticus Bar (old Phoenix Taproom), 325 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, 634-8813.

PLASTIC VISIONS The ambient experimental band plays 10 p.m. June 18 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $5, 434-3475.

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SUGAR PHIX The rock group hits the stage June 19 at Brewster’s Pit, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 223-9850.

KENDRICK LAMAR, SCHOOLBOY Q, AB-SOUL & JAY ROCK Members of California-based hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy stop by 5:30 p.m. June 19 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., $35-$59.50, 209-0367.

CAPITAL CITIES Los Angeles new wave duo treks cross-country 7 p.m. June 19 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $12, 398-7496.

GRANDCHILDREN, YIP DECEIVER The orchestral pop group from Philadelphia makes their way on stage 8 p.m. June 19 at The Standard, 200 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $5, 274-2090.

MUSIC BY THE SEA The free concert series continues with Rob Peck & Friends 7-9 p.m. June 19 at the Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach. Each week, an area restaurant offers its fare; this week it’s Paula’s Beachside Grill, 347-8007.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

ULYSSES OWENS JR., JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO June 19, European Street San Marco CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Mid-Life Crisis June 20, Plaza de la Constitución GRANDCHILDREN June 20, Jack Rabbits ELISHA PARRIS CD Release Concert June 20, Ritz Theatre EARTH, WIND & FIRE June 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE June 21, Dog Star Tavern ANBERLIN, STARS IN STEREO, CAMPFIRE OK June 21, Freebird Live PALM TREES & POWER LINES, HOPE FOR HEROES, SYSTEM RESET, HELIOS HAND June 21, Murray Hill Theatre KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES June 21, Mojo No. 4 LESS THAN JAKE, HOSTAGE CALM, PENTIMENTO June 21, The Standard MANNA ZEN, BEFORE THE FIRE June 21, Jack Rabbits MUDTOWN, THE LAST SONS, THE SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY June 21, 1904 Music Call TEEN BATTLE OF THE BANDS June 22, Jacksonville Main Library

PAPADOSIO, SMOKEWOOD June 22, Freebird Live ULTIMATE ELVIS TRIBUTE June 22, Morocco Shrine Auditorium ASTRONAUTALIS, WILIE EVENS JR., BIG BUCK$ CREW June 22, 1904 Music Hall THE REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT June 22, Murray Hill Theatre GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE June 22, Mojo No. 4 GUTTERMOUTH, PINHOLE June 22, Jack Rabbits HONKY SUCKLE June 22, Dog Star Tavern PASSERINE June 22, European Street Café Southside COUNTRY ROCKS THE BEACH: Craig Morgan, Dustin Lynch, The Lacs, Lauren Elise, Aaron Taylor, Rioon Paige, Jamie Davis June 22, Ybor Alvarez Sports Complex THE DIRTY HEADS, THE EXPENDABLES June 23, Freebird Live JASON CHARLES MILLER June 23, Brewster’s Megaplex EARPHUNK June 25, 1904 Music Hall MIKE PINTO, TRUTHFUL LIES, NATURAL VIBRATIONS, THREE LEGGED FOX June 26, Freebird Live MUSIC BY THE SEA: Steam the Band June 26, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion FRAMING THE RED, DOWN THEORY June 26, 1904 Music Hall GENERATIONALS June 27, Underbelly JACUZZI BOYS, QUEEN BEEF June 27, Nobby’s CANON, DJ WILL June 27, Murray Hill Theatre SCREAM OUT LOUD, LOST YEARS June 27, Jack Rabbits CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Bob & Joline & the Friends of Mine Band June 27, Plaza de la Constitución COPE, S.P.O.R.E June 27, 1904 Music Hall KAHNTRA BASS June 27, Brewster’s Megaplex GONZALA BERGARA QUARTET June 28, The Original Café Eleven ALEXIS RHODE, JACOB HUDSON, BETHANY STOCKDALE, GARRETT ON ACOUSTIC, DALTON STANLEY June 28, Murray Hill Theatre SMOKESTACK June 28, Mojo No. 4 BILLY BUCHANAN June 28, The Standard THE SNACKS BLUES BANDS, TOUGH JUNKIE, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP June 28, 1904 Music Hall THE SHIFTERS June 29, Mojo No. 4 OVID’S WITHERING, SIRENS June 29, Burro Bar SOUL GRAVY June 29, Dog Star Tavern PIERCE PETTIS June 29, European Street Café Southside MARION CRANE, KILO KAHN, IN WHISPERS June 29, 1904 Music Hall BRANCH & DEAN June 29, Mavericks at the Landing MARY J. BLIGE June 30, Veterans Memorial Arena GRAPH RABBIT June 30, Burro Bar THE RICH HANDS July 1, Nobby’s ALESANA, THE COLOR MORALE, UPON THIS DAWNING, LIONS LIONS, MEGOSH July 2, Jack Rabbits DZEKO & TORRES July 3, Pure Nightclub DEECRACKS, DIRECT HIT!, THE JETTY BOYS, THE RESONANTS, THE TREATS July 3, Nobby’s THE RESOLVERS July 3, 1904 Music Hall MUSIC BY THE SEA: The Falling Bones July 3, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion SALTWATER GRASS, BONNIE BLUE July 3, Freebird Live MIKEY’S IMAGINARY FRIENDS CD RELEASE July 3, Swagsonville CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The All Star Orchestra July 4, Plaza de la Constitución TOOTS LORRAINE & THE TRAFFIC July 5, Mojo No. 4 PARKRIDGE, A WAY WITHOUT July 5, Jack Rabbits ALTER EAGLES (Eagles tribute band) July 5, Freebird Live ALLELE, ENDO July 5, Brewster’s Megaplex

Live Music

Los Angeles new wave duo Capital Cities rides high June 19 at Jack Rabbits in San Marco. Photo: Jack Hagopian

KATIE & THE LICHEN, OK VANCOUVER OK July 6, Burro Bar BIG TIME RUSH July 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre EIGHT STORIES HIGH July 6, Dog Star Tavern JAMIE DAVIS, STEVEN FLOWERS BAND July 6, Mavericks at the Landing THE FreEDM BANGERS July 6, The Standard KEYLOW CD RELEASE PARTY Freebird Live MRS. SKANNOTTO July 7, Jack Rabbits PAN, ZULU WAVE, PHENOMENLOGY June 7, Burro Bar PERMISSION BAND June 7, Culhaneโ s Irish Pub MAC MILLER, CHOO JACKSON, THE COME UP July 7, Brewsterโ s Megaplex RELIANT K, THE ALMOST, THE ROCKETBOYS, DRIVER FRIENDLY July 8, Freebird Live NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTAS, CANARY IN THE COALMINE July 8, Burro Bar EVERYMEN, SS WEBB, MUDTOWN, THE DARLING SWEETS July 9, Burro Bar AUTHORITY ZERO, BALLYHOO, VERSUS THE WORLD, IMPLANTS July 10, Freebird Live KOJI, TURNOVER, IVY LEAGUE, HAVE MERCY July 10, Burro Bar MATT POND July 10, Jack Rabbits THE EMBER DAYS, IGNITENEXT, MICHAEL CRONIN July 10, Murray Hill Theatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Restless Kind July 10, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Falling Bones July 11, Plaza de la Constituciรณn FUSEBOX FUNK, OPPOSITE BOX July 11, 1904 Music Hall 7TH STREET BAND July 12, Mojo No. 4 MOTIVE, THE DOG APOLLO July 12, 1904 Music Hall WE STILL DREAM, ON MY HONOR, ENGRAVED, VICES, WINTER WAVE, DEAD LEAVES July 12, The Standard GHOST OWL July 12, Freebird Live BREAD & BUTTER July 13, Mojo No. 4 DANIELLE HOWLE July 13, Dog Star Tavern THE MAINE, A ROCKET TO THE MOON, THIS CENTURY July 14, Freebird Live FATALITY July 15, Shantytown Pub

MUSIC BY THE SEA: Grapes of Roth July 17, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion PACIFIC DUB July 17, Jack Rabbits DIVIDING THE SKYLINE July 18, Burro Bar TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, EVE TO ADAM July 18, Jack Rabbits GRANDPAโ S COUGH MEDICINE July 19, Mojo No. 4 ANDREW McMAHON July 19, Freebird Live THE FRITZ July 19, Dog Star Tavern SEVEN SPRINGS, THE ELEVENTH HOUR, WORTH ROAD July 19, Murray Hill Theatre ARCHNEMESIS July 19, 1904 Music Hall SUBLIME with ROME, PENNYWISE July 20, St. Augustine Amphitheatre COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, RET. July 20, Dog Star Tavern THE SATURDARY GIANT July 21, Burro Bar THE ARISTOCRATS July 21, 1904 Music Hall HYDRA MELODY July 22, 1904 Music Hall TOAD THE WET SPROCKET July 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA, JOHN BROWNโ S BODY July 24, Mavericks at the Landing COUSIN DAN July 24, 1904 Music Hall MUSIC BY THE SEA: Bush Doctors July 24, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Company July 25, Plaza de la Constituciรณn THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS July 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PASSAFIRE, STICK FIGURE, TATANKA July 25, Freebird Live THE MONKEES July 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BLACKOUT July 26, Brewsterโ s Megaplex PATRICK HAGGERTY & MOJO CHILLEN July 27, Downtown Blues Bar & Grille, Palatka LAWLESS HEARTS July 27, Freebird Live PARKER URBAN BAND July 27, Dog Star Tavern VINYL THIEF, DR. SIRBROTHER July 27, 1904 Music Hall EXCISION July 27, Aqua Nightclub MUSIC BY THE SEA: Ainโ t 2 Proud 2 Beg July 31, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion BROWN BAG SPECIAL Aug. 1, Dog Star Tavern

CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Rob Ellis Peck & Friends Aug. 1, Plaza de la Constituciรณn DEAD JERRYโ S Aug. 2, Dog Star Tavern SOUNDS ON CENTRE: Boukou Groove Aug. 2, Centre Street, Fernandina Beach GREG BATES Aug. 2, Mavericks at the Landing PAPA MILLION Aug. 3, Dog Star Tavern LOUDERPALOOZA2: Shattermat, The Pinz, Status Faux, F.F.N., Xgeezer, Self Employed, Poor Richards, Thirteen22 Aug. 3, Burro Bar JUSTIN BIEBER Aug. 7, Veterans Memorial Arena MUSIC BY THE SEA: Mid Life Crisis Aug. 7, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Ancient City Slickers Aug. 8, Plaza de la Constituciรณn ALABAMA Aug. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SENTROPOLIS, CHROMA, kLoB Aug. 9, Dog Star Tavern BLUE SUEDE SHOES: THE ULTIMATE ELVIS BASH Aug. 10, The Florida Theatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Jimmy Parrish & The Ocean Waves Aug. 14, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Grapes of Roth Aug. 15, Plaza de la Constituciรณn VICTORIA JUSTICE Aug. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MURRAY HILL THEATREโ S 18th ANNIVERSARY FEST Aug. 16, Murray Hill Theatre ROCK FOR KIDS PART II Aug. 16, Freebird Live MUSIC BY THE SEA: Smokinโ Mirrors Aug. 21, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion ASCEND THE HILL, THE WALKING TREE, LEAST OF THESE Aug. 21, Murray Hill Theatre SLIGHTLY STOOPID, ATMOSPHERE, THE BUDOS BAND, THE GROUCH & ELIGH, TRIBAL SEEDS Aug. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Morris Duenow Aug. 22, Plaza de la Constituciรณn JARS OF CLAY Aug. 23, Murray Hill Theatre YANKEE SLICKERS Aug. 24, Dog Star Tavern JASON & THE PUNKNECKS, MUDTOWN, COUGAR BARREL Aug. 25, Burro Bar MUSIC BY THE SEA: Big Lonesome Aug. 28, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion

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CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Lonesome Bert & The Skinny Lizards Aug. 28, Plaza de la Constitución CARNAGE Aug. 28, Pure Nightclub MUSIC BY THE SEA: ET Swing Sept. 4, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion VAGABOND SWING Sept. 7, Dog Star Tavern STEELY DAN Sept. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Top Secret Band Sept. 11, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion AMELIA ISLAND BLUES FESTIVAL: Mud Morganfield, Ana Popovic, Zac Harmon, John Nemeth, Albert Castiglia, Ben Prestage, Roger “Hurricane” Wilson with the Shuffle Junkies, Josh Miller Band, Karl Davis Band, Blues in School Band Sept. 13-14, Centre Street & Harbor Front TROPIC THUNDER Sept. 14, Dog Star Tavern MUSIC BY THE SEA: Beach Street A Go-Go Sept. 18, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion REBELUTION, COLLIE BUDDZ, ZION-I Sept. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BROWNBIRD RUDY RELIC, MUDTOWN, LONEWOLF OMB Sept. 22, Burro Bar THE CHOP TOPS Sept. 24, Jack Rabbits MUSIC BY THE SEA: Navy Dixieland Jazz Sept. 25, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion COLIN HAY Sept. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CITY AND COLOUR Oct. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUNDS ON CENTRE: Ben Prestage Oct. 4, Centre Street, Fernandina Beach BEN PRESTAGE “ONE MAN BAND” Oct. 4, Dog Star Tavern AARON CARTER Oct. 14, Jack Rabbits THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Oct. 18, Freebird Live TOWER OF POWER Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre THE LUMINEERS, DR. DOG, NATHANIEL RATELIFF Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MICHAEL BUBLE Oct. 29, Veterans Memorial Arena THE PIANO GUYS Nov. 7, The Florida Theatre MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER, MARTINA McBRIDE Nov. 9, Veterans Memorial Arena ANDREW ALTMAN CHRISTMAS JAM Dec. 21, Dog Star Tavern ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre

CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

CAFE KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269 Live music in the courtyard 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 5 p.m. every Sun. DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Tony O Band 9 p.m. June 13. Freddy’s Finest 9:30 p.m. June 14.

Herd of Watts 10 p.m. June 15. Grandpa’s Cough Medicine 9:30 p.m. June 21. Working Class Stiff with real vinyl 8 p.m. every Tue. GENNARO’S ITALIANO SOUTH, 5472 First Coast Hwy., 491-1999 Live jazz 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Dan Voll 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Live music every weekend HAMMERHEAD BEACH BAR, 2045 S. Fletcher Rd., 491-7783 Nick Bryant 2 p.m. June 15. Buck Smith & Jim Barcaro every Thur.

MERMAID BAR, Florida House Inn, 22 S. Third St., 491-3322 Open mic, 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur.

O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll 7:30 every Wed. Turner London Band 8:30 every Thur.-Sat. THE PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. every Wed. DJs every Fri. & Sat. Schnockered 9:30 p.m. every Sun. Buck Smith Project Band 9:30 p.m. every Tue. PLAE, 80 Amelia Circle, Amelia Island Plantation, 277-2132 Gary Ross 7-11 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811 Dan Voll 4 p.m. June 16 THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Brenna Vick 5 p.m. June 18

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

BREWSTER’S MEGAPLEX/PIT/ROC BAR/THE EDGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 223-9850 DJ Clay, Anybody Killa June 13. Primer 55, Endo, Pseudocidal 7 p.m. June 14. Sugar Phix June 19. Live music every Wed.-Sat. MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

Swedish folksinger The Tallest Man on Earth rises to the occasion June 13 at The Original Café Eleven in St. Augustine Beach.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BRICK RESTAURANT, 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606 Bush Doctors every first Fri. & Sat. Jazz every Fri. & Sat. THE CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. 3rd Bass every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave., 387-3582 DJ Keith spins Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free spins vintage every Fri. DJs SuZiRok, LowKill & Mowgli spin for Chillwave Madness every Mon. ELEVATED AVONDALE, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Piano bar with various musicians 9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. MOJO NO. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670 7th Street Band 10 p.m. June 14. Bread & Butter 10 p.m. June 15. Live music every Fri. & Sat. TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 Pop Muzik 7 p.m., Whiskey Dogs 8 p.m. June 14. Live music every Fri. Karaoke every Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Rd., 642-7600 DJ Albert Adkins spins every Fri. DJs Adrian Sky, Alberto Diaz & Chris Zachrich spin every Tue. DJ Michael Stumbaugh spins every Sat. GATORS DOCKSIDE, 8650 Baymeadows Rd., 448-0500 Karaoke with DJ Tom 9 p.m.-mid. every Tue. MY PLACE, 9550 Baymeadows Rd., 737-5299 Out of Hand every Mon. Rotating bands every other Tue. & Wed. OASIS GRILL & CHILL, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., 748-9636 DJs Stan, Mike Bend spin every Feel Good Fri.

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) BILLY’S BOATHOUSE GRILL 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Small Fish 5:30 p.m. June 12. Derek Maines 5:30 p.m.

June 13. Dune Dogs 6 p.m. June 14. Kurt Lanham 1 p.m., Upper Limit 6 p.m. June 15. Billy Bowers noon, 4Play 4:45 p.m. June 16. Incognito June 19. Live music Wed.-Sun. BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL, 200 First St. N., 249-0083 Uncommon Legends 2 p.m. June 16 BRIX TAPHOUSE, 300 N. Second St., 241-4668 DJ IBay every Tue., Fri. & Sat. DJ Ginsu every Wed. DJ Jade every Thur. Charlie Walker every Sun. CASA MARINA, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Jazz 6 p.m. every Tue. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Red Afternoon 7:30 p.m. June 14.

Karaoke with Hal 8 p.m. every Sat. Irish music every Sun. John Thomas Group Jazz 6-8 p.m. every first Tue. ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY, 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337 Bread & Butter June 13. Live music every Thur.

FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Songwriters every Tue. Ryan Campbell every Wed. Wes Cobb Thur. Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. every Mon. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Donavon Frankenreiter June 13. Shot Down In Flames (AC/DC tribute) June 14. Anberlin, Stars in Stereo, Campfire OK June 21. Live music every weekend GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 N. Third St., 201-9283 Firewater Tent Revival 9 p.m. June 15. Live music every Fri. & Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Matt Collins June 13. Lance Neely June 14. Billy Buchanan June 15. Live music every Wed.-Sat. KC CRAVE, 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660 Spade McQuade 8-11 p.m. June 12. Live music every Wed., Fri. & Sat. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Spade McQuade June 14. The Rip Currents 7 p.m. June 15. Dirty Pete June 22. Damn Dirty Sham every Tue. Matt Still every Thur.

LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach,

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249-2922 River City Blues Band 7 p.m. June 14. Jarrel Harris June 15 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Out of Hand June 14-15. Dirty Pete June 16. Uncommon Legends every Wed. Ryan Campbell every Thur. Be Easy every Mon. Split Tone 10:30 p.m. every Tue. MAYPORT TAVERN, 2775 Old Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 270-0801 Karaoke every Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., Ste. 2, 2461500 Brady Clampitt June 12. Barrett Jockers June 13.

Ivey West Band June 15. Mark O’Quinn June 16. Live music every Wed.-Sun. MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson 6 p.m. every Thur.

MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Eric Sardinas & Big Motor 9 p.m. June 13. Sons of Bill 9 p.m.

June 14. Conrad Oberg June 22 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb 10 p.m. every Tue. DJ Austin Williams Karaoke 9 p.m. every Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar 9 p.m. every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Billy Bowers 7:30 p.m. June 14. Richard Smith 7:30 p.m. June 15. Live music Thur.Sat. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Evans Acoustic Trio 8 p.m. June 14. Katie Fair every Wed. Javier Perez every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. THE PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR, 412 N. First St., 246-6454 Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. June 14, 2:30 p.m.

June 16. Uncommon Legends 9:30 p.m. June 15. Live music every Fri.-Sat. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637 Be Easy every Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. June 12. Live music every Thur.-Sun. THE WINE BAR, 320 N. First St., 372-0211 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St., 1904jax.com Jerry Castle June 12. Gravity A, Former Champions 9 p.m. June 13. The Sh-Booms 9 p.m. June 14. Plastic Visions 10 p.m.

June 18. Open mic every Tue. ATTICUS BAR (formerly PHOENIX TAPROOM), 325 W. Forsyth St., 798-8222 Tigers Jaw, Pianos Become the Teeth, Dad Punchers 7 p.m. June 16. Destroyer of Light 7 p.m. June 18. Live music every Fri. & Sat. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 677-2977 This Frontier Needs Heroes 9 p.m. June 12. Matt Woods, Devon Stuart, Beau Crum, Joel Wilchen, Dean Johanesen June 14. Sons of Hippies, Crowkeepers, Orange Air June 15. Honky Suckle, Snake Blood Remedy June 16. Shana Falana, Datadiamond, Bunny Dull 8 p.m. June 17. The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Pity Sex, Dads 6:30 p.m. June 18. Live music every Fri. & Sat. DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth, 354-0666 DJ Synsonic spins every Tue. & Fri. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall Karaoke every Mon. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 176, 374-1247 Braxton Adamson 5-8 p.m., AA Duo 10 p.m.

June 14. Chuck Nash Duo 9 p.m. June 15 THE JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Lisa & the Mad Hatters 6 p.m. June 13. Mr. Natural 8 p.m.-1 a.m. June 14. Driven 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

June 15 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis spins house, gospel, deep, acid, hip-hop, Latin, tribal, Afrobeat, tech/electronic, disco, rarities 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Wed. DJ Vinn spins Top 40 every Thur. DJ 007 spins ultra house & top 40 dance every Fri. DJ Shotgun every Sat.

Live Music MAVERICKS, Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Bobby Laredo spins every Thur. & Sat. DJs Bryan & Q45 spin every Fri. NORTHSTAR THE PIZZA BAR, 119 E. Bay St., 860-5451 Open mic night every Wed. DJ SwitchGear every Thur.

SECRETS WINE BAR & LOUNGE, 521 W. Forsyth St. DJs Roy Luis & Albert Adkins spin mix and house 8 p.m. every Fri. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 Laurie Rider, Sean Clark, Chris Rider, Brad Lauretti 8 p.m. June 12. David Wax Museum 8 p.m. June 14. Broncho 8 p.m. June 15. Old Time Jam 7 p.m. every Tue. Fjord Explorer & Screamin’ Eagle every Ritual ReUnion Thur.

ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 DJ BG June 14. Blues Lightning June 15. Live music Wed.-Sat. MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 Band on the Run 10 p.m. June 14-15. DJ Ty spins every Thur. Buck Smith Project every Mon. Blistur unplugged every Wed. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Open mic June 13. Live music 9:30 p.m. June 14-15. DJ BG 4 p.m.

June 16. Deck music 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4 p.m. every Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

BRUCCI’S PIZZA, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913 Mike Shackelford 6:30 p.m. every Sat. & Mon. CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Warning June 12. The Ride June 14-15. Blistur June 19.

Karaoke every Thur. & Sun. Top 40 every Mon. & Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE & STEAKHOUSE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766 Karaoke Dude every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SALSA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

APPLEBEE’S, 14560 St. Augustine Rd., 262-7605 Michael C 9:30 p.m. every Sat. AW SHUCKS OYSTER BAR, 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368 BethAnne 7 p.m. June 14. Open mic with Diamond Dave every Wed. Live music every Sat. CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Wed. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Jazz 7-9 pm., Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mon.-Thur.

Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff Fri. & Sat. RACK EM UP, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., Ste. 205, 262-4030 Live music, DJs, Karaoke and open mic

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

BLACK HORSE WINERY, 420 Kingsley Ave., 644-8480 Live music 6-9 p.m. every Fri., 2-6 p.m. every Sat. CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 1580 Wells Rd., 269-4855 Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Wed. & Sat. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. LIVE BAR & LOUNGE, 2223 C.R. 220, 290-1733 Open mic with Ernie & Debi Evans 7 p.m. every Tue. POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116 Live music 7:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Live music 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat.

PALATKA

DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., (386) 325-5454 Acoustic circle 2 p.m., open jam 5 p.m. every Sun.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 820 A1A N., Ste. E-18, 834-2492 Chase Rideman June 13. Evan Michael June 14.

Clayton Bush June 15. Live music every Wed.-Sat. LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE, 301 N. Roscoe Blvd., 285-0139 The Monster Fool 6 p.m. June 15. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Tony Novelly 6 p.m. every Mon., 11:30 a.m. Sun. PUSSER’S CARIBBEAN GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766 Neil Freestone 6-10 p.m. June 13. Steve Carey 8 p.m.-mid. June 14. Schnockered 8 p.m.-mid. June 15. Pili Pili 4-8 p.m. June 16. SoundStage on the deck 4 p.m. every Sun. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226 Live music Thur.-Sat. SUN DOG BREWING CO., 822 A1A N., Ste. 105, 686-1852 Live music Wed.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

HAPPY HOURS, 952 Lane Ave. N., 683-0065 Karaoke 4 p.m. every Sun.

HJ’S BAR & GRILL, 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., 317-2783 Karaoke with DJ Ron 8:30 p.m. every Tue. & DJ Richie every Fri. Live music every Sat. Open mic 8 p.m. every Wed. INTUITION ALE WORKS, 720 King St., 683-7720 Live music every Taproom Tuesday KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 9:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. THE LOFT, 925 King St., loftthursdays.com DJs Wes Reed and Josh Kemp spin for PBR Party every Thur.

METRO/RAINBOW ROOM Piano Bar, 859 Willowbranch Ave., 388-8719 Karaoke Rob spins 10 p.m. Sun.-Wed. DJ Zeke Smith spins Fri. DJ Michael Murphy spins 10 p.m. Sat. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 TD Trio 8 p.m. June 14. A Beach For Everybody Benefit: Leah Sykes & Arbor Park 8 p.m. June 15. Live music Fri. & Sat. RASCALS, 3960 Confederate Point Rd., 772-7335 Karaoke 8 p.m. every Thur.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 554-6865 “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” 10:30 a.m., Ace Winn 11:30 a.m., Dean Johanesen 1 p.m., State of Mind 2:45 p.m. June 15, River Stage YESTERDAY’S SOCIAL CLUB, 3638 Park St., 223-3822 Primitive Hard Drive 7 p.m. June 14. River City Kats, Southern Feather Band June 15. Live music every Fri.-Sat.

ST. AUGUSTINE

A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 Live music June 12-15. Live music every Thur.-Sat. ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Adam Lee 8:30 p.m. June 12. Amy Vickery 8:30 p.m. June 14. Folkin Up the ’80s 8:30 p.m. June 15. Open mic with Smokin’ Joe 7 p.m. every Tue. CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., 826-1594 Chillula 7 p.m. June 14. Billy Buchanan 2 p.m., MidLife Crisis 7-11 p.m. June 15. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m.

June 16 CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993 Live music every Fri. & Sat. Chelsea Saddler every Sun. DOS COFFEE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Taylor Roberts & Co. every Fri. The Residents spin every Sat. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. June 19. Live music every Fri. KINGFISH GRILL, 252 Yacht Club Dr., 824-2111 The Fermin Spanish Guitar Band 5-8 p.m. every Salsa Sunday MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Open jam, house band every Wed. Battle of the DJs with Josh Frazetta & Mardi Gras Mike every last Sun. MEEHAN’S IRISH PUB, 20 Avenida Menendez, 810-1923 Live music every Fri. & Sat. MI CASA CAFE, 69 St. George St., 824-9317 Chelsea Saddler every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Elizabeth Roth 11 a.m. every Sun. MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Go Get Gone 9 p.m. June 14. 2/3rds Band 9 p.m. June 15. John Winters 1 p.m. June 16. Donny Brazile 9 p.m. June 18. Todd & Molly Jones every Wed. Aaron Esposito every Thur. Go Get Gone 9 p.m. every Mon. MOJO BBQ OLD CITY, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264 Live music every Fri. & Sat. PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar 3-6 p.m. every Mon. SCARLETT O’HARA’S, 70 Hypolita St., 824-6535 Gentlemen of the Groove 9 p.m. June 13. Kaylee Rose 4 p.m., Oh No! 9 p.m. June 14. Billy Bowers noon, Danka 9 p.m. June 15.

Clayton Bush noon June 16. Jeremy Austin 8 p.m. June 18.

Chase Rideman 9 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke every Mon. THE STANDARD, 200 Anastasia Blvd., 342-2187 Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi tribute) 9 p.m. June 15. Grandchildren, Yip Deceiver 8 p.m. June 19. Less Than Jake, Hostage Calm, Pentimento 9 p.m. June 21. Country every Thur. Reggae Sun. Indie, dance, electro Tue. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210 W., 819-1554 Live music every Fri. THE TASTING ROOM, 25 Cuna St., 810-2400 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar Band 7:30-11:30 p.m. every Sat. Bossa Nova with Monica da Silva, Chad Alger 5-8 p.m. every Sun. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys 9 p.m. June 14-15. Matanzas 9 p.m. Sun.-Thur. Open mic 5 p.m. every Thur. Elizabeth Roth 1 p.m. every Sat.

BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466 Live music 5 p.m. every Wed., 9 p.m. Thur.-Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Drive, 645-5571 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

ENDO EXO, 1224 Kings Ave., 396-7733 DJ Manus spins top 40, dance every Sat. Open mic with King Ron & T-Roy every Mon. EUROPEAN STREET, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 399-1740 Muriel Anderson 7:30 p.m. June 13. Ulysses Owens Jr., Joshua Bowlus Trio 8 p.m. June 19. Jazz 8 p.m. every second Tue. HAVANA-JAX CUBA LIBRE, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 3990609 MVP Band 6-9 p.m., DJs No Fame & Dr. Doom every Wed. Jazz every Thur. American Top 40 every Fri. Salsa every Sat. JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Night Beds, Jenny O. 8 p.m. June 12. Legit, Justice, So Serious, Blaine Bitches, Pinkykilla 8 p.m. June 14. The Neighbourhood, 1975 8 p.m. June 15. Dragonette 8 p.m.

June 17. Capital Cities 7 p.m. June 19. Grandchildren June 20. Live music 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922 Patrick Evan & Bert Mingea or Mark O’Quinn every Thur.

PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815 Jennifer Chase 7:30 p.m. every Sat. RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY, 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 Live music every Fri. SQUARE ONE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 306-9004 Soul on the Square with MVP Band & Special Formula 8 p.m.; DJ Dr. Doom every Mon. DJs Wes Reed & Josh Kemp spin underground dance 9 p.m. every Are Friends Electric Wed. DJ Hal spins Karaoke every Thur. Mitch Kuhman & Friends of Blake every other Fri. DJs Rogue & Mickey Shadow spin every Factory Sat.

SOUTHSIDE

AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 101, 928-0515 Live jazz every Tue. Beer house rock every Wed. Live music Thur. Will Hurley every Fri. Bill Rice every Sat. THE BAYARD ROOSTER, 12661 Philips Hwy., 880-7771 Michael C Karaoke 7-10 p.m. June 14 BOMBA’S, 8560 Beach Blvd., 997-2291 Open mic: The Foxes 8 p.m. every Tue., George every Thur. Live music every Fri. DAVE & BUSTER’S, 7025 Salisbury Rd. S., 296-1525 A DJ spins every Fri.EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 5500 Beach Blvd., 399-1740 Conrad Oberg 8 p.m. June 15.

Live music every Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Job Meiller June 13. Tony Neal Paul June 14.

Live music June 15. Live music every Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY ANGELS, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120, 997-9850 Harry & Sally 7 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke 7 p.m. every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955 Charlie Walker June 13. Co-Alition June 15.

Live music every Fri. & Sat. Open mic every Sun. SEVEN BRIDGES, 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999 Chuck Nash every Thur. Live music 10 p.m. every Fri. TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426 A DJ spins 8:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Shotgun Redd 9 p.m. June 14. The Gootch June 15. DJ Frazetta every Thur. David Luthra 5 p.m. every Fri. Live music Fri. & Sat. YAMAS HOOKAH, 9753-B Deer Lake Court, 389-2077 Live music 8:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH

SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Band on the Run 4 p.m. June 16 SKYLINE SPORTSBAR, 5611 Norwood Ave., 517-6973 Bigga Rankin, Cool Running DJs every Tue. & first Sun. Fusion Band & DJ every Thur. DJ Scar spins every Sun. THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Al Poindexter for open mic 7 p.m. June 13. CJ Fluharty 8 p.m.

June 15 3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL, 2467 Faye Rd., 647-8625 Open mic every Thur. Woodie & Wyatt C. every Fri. Live music every Sat. TUCKERS HWY. 17 TAVERN, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Black Creek Ri’zin’ 8 p.m. June 14. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

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AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 1915 A1A S., 461-0102 Piano bar with Kenyon Dye 5-9:30 p.m. every Sun. JACK’S BARBECUE, 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100 Jim Essery 4 p.m. every Sat. Live music every Thur.-Sat. THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311 The Tallest Man on Earth 9 p.m. June 13. Two Gallants, Broncho 9 p.m. June 18.

BAHAMA BREEZE, 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031 Live music every Tue.-Sun.

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CB (Devin Reardon left), and Matt (Jay Corbin) are teenaged – and parodied – versions of Charlie Brown and Pig-Pen in “Dog Sees God.” Photo: Bradley Akers

You’re a Good Teenager

Playwright Bert Royal comes home to see the staging of his angst-ridden parody of Charlie Brown and the ‘Peanuts’ gang DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD 8 p.m. June 14-15, 19-22, 11 p.m. June 15 and 22 Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jacksonville Beach Tickets: $20; $17 for students, military and seniors 249-0289, playersbythesea.org

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uch of playwright Bert V. Royal’s work takes place in high school — angsty teens trying to find their way, with themes surrounding social standing, lust and downright pain. It’s ironic, considering that Royal himself never attended public high school. Growing up in Green Cove Springs, he was homeschooled from the ninth grade through graduation.

Today, Royal lives in Los Angeles and has a blossoming film-writing career. He wrote the 2010 comedy “Easy A,” starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley and Amanda Bynes, and the 2012 madefor-TV-movie “Joey Dakota,” featuring Amber Stevens and Scott Wolf.

Royal was born in Colorado; his family moved to the Mandarin area of Jacksonville when he was 5. He attended Loretto Elementary and Mandarin Middle School. At age 12, the Royal family relocated to Green Cove Springs.

“I love Jacksonville,” Royal, now 35, said.

“I was fortunate to have parents who would take me to see shows and community theater productions,” he said. “I got a good healthy dose of theater.”

After a two-and-a-half-year stint at St. Johns River State College Florida School of the Arts in Palatka from 1995-’98, Royal moved to New York City. He was involved in casting shows like “Third Watch” and “Chappelle’s Show” until quitting to become a writer. One of Royal’s first successful scripts was for “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.”

This month, Royal returns home for the first

Jacksonville staging of “Dog Sees God” at Players by the Sea. The play, which premiered offBroadway in 2005, is an “unauthorized parody” that imagines what the characters from the comic strip “Peanuts” would be like as teenagers.

Press material explains “drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion, sexual relations and identity are among the issues covered in this drama.” The theater recommends the content is suitable for audiences 16 and older.

“It’s the only thing that I’ve never been able to step away from,” Royal said. “It’s my baby — my first-born.”

Over the past nine years, the play has been performed across the country — in 48 out of 50 states, to be exact. It won the 2004 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off-Broadway Play and the 2006 HX Award for Best OffBroadway Play.

Green Cove Springs native Bert Royal will return home to see the first night’s performance of “Dog Sees God.” Photo: Adam Taylor

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“Having not gone to high school, I was an outsider looking in,” Royal said. “I think it gave me a better vantage point. To me, high school is a fantasy world.”

When Players by the Sea contacted Royal to say they were putting on a production of “Dog Sees God,” he was elated. “I’ve been waiting for this for nine years,” he said. “It’s out of my hands as far as the interpretation of the material, but I love going to watch it as an audience member.”

“Dog Sees God” will run on PBTS’ Studio Stage, with Bradley M. Akers directing a young cast, featuring Devin Reardon (CB), Tyler Ramirez (Beethoven), Katie Sacks (CB’s Sister), Jay Cobian (Van), Pablo Milla (Matt), Lindsay Curry (Van’s sister), Hannah Morgan (Tricia) and Abby Gomez (Marcy).

Royal will attend the June 14 show; he’ll conduct a question-and-answer session with the audience afterward. He said he is thrilled with the theater’s decision to donate all proceeds from the June 19 production to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, an organization founded

by Shepard’s parents after he was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in 1998.

“That makes me happier than anything else,” he said.

Even though Royal has seen his play performed all over the country, there’s something particularly sweet, he said, about seeing it staged in his hometown.

“This is a very controversial play. It takes guts to put it on anywhere. I just hope it speaks to people and helps the community grow.”

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Arts PERFORMANCE

DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REALLY REFLECT UP? A musical about a teenager in a ’50s Catholic school “dealing with puppy love, patron saints and sex education,” with music and lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric Jans, is staged June 13-30, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m.

Sundays, at Limelight Theatre’s Matuza Main Stage, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org.

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAM COAT Alhambra Theatre & Dining stages the story of Joseph from the Bible as told by the musician behind “Jesus Christ Superstar,” 8 p.m. June 12-16, 18-23, 25-30, July 2-3, 5-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-28, 30-Aug. 4 (doors 6 p.m.); 1:15 p.m.

June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27 and Aug. 8 (doors 11 a.m.); 2 p.m. June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and Aug. 4 (doors noon) at 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$59, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

THE THREE MRS. FLAGLERS The dinner theater show, celebrating the 125th anniversary of Hotel Casa Monica, is staged 6:30 p.m. June 13 at the hotel, 95 Cordova St., St. Augustine, $49 (reservations required), 827-1888, casamonica.com.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE The Amelia Community Theatre presents the stage play that inspired the Spencer Tracy classic – and the Steve Martin classic – 8 p.m. June 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29 and 2 p.m.

June 23 at 209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $10-$20, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

9 PARTS OF DESIRE The 5 & Dime, A Theatre Company, performs the Heather Raffo play, examining nine Iraqi women – a sexy painter, a radical communist, a doctor, an exile, wives and lovers – starring Zeina Salame, 8 p.m. June 14-15 and 3 p.m. June 16 at CoRK North in CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, $15, the5anddime.org, corkartsdistrict.tumblr.com.

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL Theatre Jacksonville presents the musical comedy of “friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era,” with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, 8 p.m. June 14-15, 21-22; 2 p.m. June 16; and 7:30 p.m. June 13 and 20 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $25, 396-4425, theatrejax.com.

ANYTHING GOES The Orange Park Community Theatre performs Cole Porter’s musical about passengers aboard the SS American en route to England, 8 p.m. June 14-15, 21-22, 27-29 and 3 p.m. June 16, 23 and 30 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, $20, 276-2599, opct.org.

DOG SEES GOD Bert V. Royal’s “unauthorized parody” about the death of a young man’s dog and his begging of life’s greater questions afterward is staged 8 p.m. June 14-15 and 19-22 and 11 a.m. June 15 and 22 at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, $20, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org.

THE LAST FIVE YEARS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this intimate musical about the cycle of a man and woman falling in and out of love over the course of five years, staged 8 p.m. June 14-15, 21-22 and 2 p.m. June 16 and 23 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM The St. Augustine Ballet presents the Shakespearean comedy at 2 and 7:30 p.m. June 15 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $25-$30, 824-1746, saintaugustineballet.com.

COMEDIA WITH THE SAINT GEORGE PLAYERS Authentic 1500s Spanish Slapstick Comic Plays are staged 8 p.m. June 15 and 29 at Spanish Bakery Courtyard, 42 St. George St., $5-$10, 377-7063, saintgeorgeplayers.weebly.com.

MURDER IN THE OLDE CITY A “powerful tale of murder, scandal, love and deceit” in 1880s St. Augustine is staged 5:30 p.m. June 23 and 30 at Raintree Restaurant, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $40, 824-7211.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

FREE KIDS’ DANCE CLASS Classes for ages 7-11 are held 4:30-5:15 p.m. June 12 and every Wed. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach, free, 246-4600, dancetrancefitness.com/dtkidz.

COMMUNITY HU SONG The songs are offered 11 a.m. June 23 at Eckankar Center, 6636 Arlington Road, Arlington, 725-7760 and 7 p.m. June 26 at Pablo Creek Library, 13295 Beach Blvd., 725-7760.

DROP-IN ART Children ages 5-10 can see galleries and gardens and experiment with different art processes, 5-6 p.m. June 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Aug. 6 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org.

JACKSONVILLE ROARS INTO THE 1920S Speaker Emily Retherford Lisska shares stories from the First Coast in the 1920s, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 13 at Fleet Landing Clubhouse, 1 Fleet Landing Blvd., Atlantic Beach, free, 420-4200, bit.ly/17ypG9F.

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AMATEUR NIGHT AUDITIONS Auditions for the host searches are held 5 p.m. June 13 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555.

ART ADVENTURES The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens offers classes in “painting, printmaking, collage and construction with changing themes,” 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 15 at 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, $15, 356-6857, cummer.org.

MOCA GUILD: HAPPY HOUR MOCA Guild Members celebrate “Inside/Out,” the museum’s permanent collection, 4-6 p.m. June 20. The exhibit is on display through Aug. 25 at MOCA, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free for members, $5 for nonmembers, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com.

JAX CONTRA DANCE A live band and caller lead folk dancing 8 and 11 p.m. June 21 and every third Fri. of the month at Riverside Avenue Christian Church, 2841 Riverside Ave., $7, 396-1997.

AMATEUR NIGHT SEMIFINALS Semifinal auditions for the host searches begin 5 p.m.

June 21 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555.

TEEN BATTLE OF THE BANDS Local teens ages 12-18 compete; competition is held 1 p.m.

June 22 in Main Library conference center, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 630-2664.

SELLING TO HOLLYWOOD The class on selling books and scripts to Hollywood is held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. June 22 in University Center’s Bldg. 43, University of North Florida, 12000 Alumni Dr., Southside, $99, 620-4200, ce.unf.edu.

ART CONTEST An art contest for the best design of race T-shirts for Anastasia State Park’s 10th annual Endless Summer 10K is open to all ages; design size limited to 8-inch-by-10inch paper and four colors. The deadline is June 30; free, Anastasia State Park, 1340A A1A S., St. Augustine, 461-2033, floridastateparks.org.

HEART TO HEART VIDEO CONTEST Ferring Pharmaceuticals announced the extension of its 2013 Heart to Heart Video Contest, which gives parents a chance to win up to $15,000 toward their child’s education. The contest encourages patients who have struggled with infertility to share their story of becoming a parent; submit a creative video that shows the steps taken to achieve parenthood through Aug. 31 at hearttoheartcontest.com.

ADULT DANCING Ballet, stretch, flamenco, belly dancing, clogging and ballroom classes are held June 17-Aug. 17 at Boleros, 10131 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, 721-3399, boleros.cc.

BEGINNERS’ DANCE CLASSES These classes are held 5:45-6:45 p.m. every Wed. and Mon. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach, first class is free, 246-4600, dancetrancefitness.com.

BELLY DANCING Belly Dance with Margarita 4 p.m. every Thur. and 10:30 a.m. every Sat. at Boleros Dance Center, 10131 Atlantic Blvd., Arlington, 721-3399.

K.A.R.M.A. CLASS A Kindling Auras & Radiating Musical Awareness group vocal session, focusing on mental clarity, visualization, harmonizing and blending, breath and energy control, is held 6-7 p.m. every Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Spring Park. Registration is requested; 322-7672, elementsofonelove@gmail.com.

ART THERAPY CLASSES Art classes are held 6-9 p.m. every Tue. at Diversions, 210 N. Laura St., Downtown, $30 includes supplies, 586-2088, email daniel@diversionsjax.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE CHORUS AUDITIONS Auditions for singers for “On Broadway! Act II” are held 6:50-9 p.m. every Tue. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 215 St. George St., St. Augustine. Music distributed during the first few weeks of rehearsals at 6:30 p.m., membership fee: $25, 808-1904, staugustinecommunitychorus.org.

JAZZ, DANCE AND TECHNIQUE The classes continue every Tue. at Dance Trance, 1515 San Marco Blvd., 390-0939, dancetrancefitness.com.

DANCE CLASSES The Dance Shack offers several classes for all ages and skill levels every Mon.-Fri. at 3837 Southside Blvd., Southside, 527-8694, thedanceshack.com.

DRAMATIC ARTS AT THE BEACHES Classes and workshops in theatrical performance for all ages and skill levels are held Mon.-Fri. at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, fees vary, 249-0289.

THEATRICAL ARTS Classes in theatrical performance, including song and dance, are held Mon.-Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Spring Park, fees vary, 322-7672, theperformersacademy.com.

MIXED MEDIA ART CLASSES Art classes are held weekly at Studio 121, 121 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, at $20 per class or $100 for six weeks, 568-2146, teresemuller.com.

MURRAY HILL ART CLASSES Six-week art classes are offered at Murray Hill Art Center,

“Comb Over” (pictured), one of Karen Kurycki’s playful illustrations in “Teased,” is on display for a reception the night of June 14 at Hawthorn Salon in Riverside. The exhibit continues through Aug. 17.

4327 Kerle St., Murray Hill; adult fee is $80; $50 for kids, 677-2787, artsjax.org.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

VESPERS St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church holds Candlelight Vespers featuring jazz and other genres, 5:30 p.m. June 16 and every third Sun. of the month, at 37 Lovett St., St. Augustine, 829-8828, stcypriansepiscopalchurch.org.

WINDWARD BRASS Navy Band Southeast’s Brass Quintet, Windward Brass, plays patriotic fare, from Broadway classics to today’s popular music, June 20 in the Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 630-2665.

ST. AUGUSTINE MUSIC FESTIVAL The St. Augustine Cathedral Basilica holds six free concerts June 20-22 and June 27-29 – each at 7:30 p.m. – with different themes ranging from “Mozart and More” to “Grace and Beauty – Spanish Accents,” 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine, staugustinemusicfestival.org.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Live jazz is featured nightly at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 825-0502.

JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Trumpeter Ray Callendar and guitarist Taylor Roberts are featured 9:30 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., Riverside, 388-9551.

JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio plays 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 262-0006.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE The House Cats play 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. every Sat. at Stogies Club & Listening Room, 36 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 826-4008.

JAZZ IN ARLINGTON Jazzland features live music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. and 8 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at 1324 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

MID-WEEK MARKET Arts and crafts, local produce and live music are featured 3-6 p.m. June 12 and every Wed. at Bull Memorial Park, corner of East Coast Drive and Seventh Street, Atlantic Beach, 247-5800.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 14 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional artists, strolling performers, bands and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 15 and every Sat. at the market, 2623 Herschel St., Riverside, free, 554-6865, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open late, 5-9 p.m. June 20 and every third Thur. of the month, at various venues from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center. For a list of participating galleries, call 249-2222.

UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open 5-9 p.m. June 29 and every last Sat. of the month in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK An art walk, featuring 30-40 galleries, museums and businesses and spanning 15 blocks, is held 5-9 p.m. July 3 and the first Wed. of every month in Downtown Jacksonville.

For an events map, go to downtownjacksonville.org/ marketing; iloveartwalk.com.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held July 5 and the first Fri. of every month, with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065.

SECOND SATURDAY ARTREAGOUS ART WALK The galleries of downtown Fernandina Beach are open for self-guided tours, 5:30-8:30 p.m. July 13 and the second Sat. of every month, 277-0717, ameliaisland.com.

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. “Shrimp Festival: 50 Years and Counting,” an exhibit celebrating the local festival held since 1964, is on display through June. The children’s exhibit, “Discovery Ship,” allows kids to pilot the ship, hoist flags and learn about the history of Fernandina’s harbor.

CAMP BLANDING MUSEUM 5629 S.R. 16 W., Camp Blanding, Starke, 682-3196, campblanding-museum.org. Artwork, weapons, uniforms and other artifacts from the activities of Camp Blanding during World War II are displayed along with outdoor displays of vehicles from WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm.

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CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org.

“Future Retro: The Great Age of the American Automobile” – an exhibit of drawings from the collection of Jean S. and Frederick A. Sharf in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is on display through Sept. 8. Also featured are classic automobiles, organized by Bill Warner of Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. “La Florida,” presenting native and Spanish colonial artifacts celebrating 500 years of Florida art, runs through Oct. 6.

JACKSONVILLE MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER 2 Independent Drive, Ste. 162, Downtown, 355-1101, jacksonvillemaritimeheritagecenter.org. The museum’s permanent collection includes steamboats, various nauticalthemed art, books, documents and artifacts.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. Local artist Helen Hoffman’s exhibit of oils, pastels and giclees is displayed through June 28. “The Boy Scouts in America,” an exhibit of original manuscripts on the history of the Boy Scouts, is on display through Aug. 27. “The Great Depression,” an exhibit of original manuscripts on the Depression of the early 20th century, runs through Aug. 27.

The permanent collection includes other rare manuscripts.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org.

The permanent collection features relics from America’s Gilded Age, exhibited on three floors.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Road, Mandarin, 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. Exhibits regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War vessel Maple Leaf are on display, as well as works by Mandarin artists.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. “Traces: Recent Work by Lari Gibbons” runs through Aug. 18 at MOCA’s UNF Gallery of Art. “Inside/Out” – an exhibit of selected works from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, including Alexander Calder’s mobile “Red Triangles” and “Polygons” and Melanie Pullen’s “Full Prada” – is on display through Aug. 25. Sarah Emerson’s mural, based on her imaginary interpretation of Aokigahara, Japan’s suicide forest, concludes the second season of Project Atrium and is displayed through July 7.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org.

“Be the Dinosaur: Life in the Cretaceous” – an interactive summer exhibit using video-game technology – runs through Sept. 3.

RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com.

“Through Our Eyes” celebrates 20 years of African-American art with the exhibit “20/20 Perfect Vision,” featuring works of 20 artists, through June 30.

GALLERIES

ABSOLUTE AMERICANA ART GALLERY 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine, 824-5545, absoluteamericana.com. Romero Britto’s sculptures and limited-edition prints are featured.

ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828, coab.us/index.aspx?NID=158. An exhibit featuring the wife and husband team of Debra and Randy Brienen showcases their acrylic art. The exhibit is on display through June 28 with a reception June 20.

AMIRO ART & FOUND GALLERY 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com. Steve Lohman’s work is featured in “Twist and Shout: Steel and Wire Sculptures” through June 28.

THE ART CENTER PREMIERE GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/premier.html. “Outside/In,” a collaborative juried exhibit of works by members of the Art Center and Art Guild of Orange Park, is on display through July 11.

ART INSTITUTE OF JACKSONVILLE GALLERY 8775 Baypine Road, Southside, 486-3000. The “Portfolio Show” is held 5 p.m. June 13. Design, media arts and fashion programs are held on the first floor and culinary programs are on the third floor.

BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, Riverside, 855-1181. “Letterpress Poster Exhibition” is displayed through July 14.

CLAY & CANVAS STUDIO 2642 Rosselle St., Ste. 6, Riverside, 501-766-1266. Works by Tiffany Whitfield Leach, Lily Kuonen and Rachel Evans may be viewed by appointment.

CORSE GALLERY & ATELIER 4144 Herschel St., Riverside, 388-8205, corsegalleryatelier. com. Permanent works on display feature those by Kevin Beilfuss, Eileen Corse, Miro Sinovcic, Maggie Siner, Alice

Williams and Luana Luconi Winner.

FAIRFAX GALLERY 4216 Herschel St., Jacksonville, 384-7724, fairfaxgalleryjackosnville.com. Jacksonville native Christin PROMISE OF BENEFIT Easterling’s work in abstract mixed media is displayed through June 17.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. The 11th annual Sea Turtle Show showcases artwork in clay, metal and glass, as well as jewelry and photographs by national, regional and local artists, through July 1.

THE GALLERY AT HOUSE OF STEREO 8780 Perimeter Park Ct., Ste. 100, Southside, 642-6677, houseofstereo.com. The gallery features painting, art glass, photography, wood crafts, pottery and sculpture.

GEORGIA NICK GALLERY 11A Aviles St., St. Augustine, 806-3348, georgianickgallery.com. The artist-owned studio displays Nick’s sea and landscape photography, along with local work by oil painters, a mosaic artist, potter, photographer and author.

HASKELL GALLERY & DISPLAY CASES Jax International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546. Laird’s “Cphace Series” – infrared captures printed on archival metallic paper – are on display through June 30 in Haskell Gallery. Hiromi Moneyhun’s three-dimensional paper-cut art is shown in connector display cases.

HAWTHORN SALON 1011 Park St., Riverside. “Teased,” an exhibit featuring illustrations by Jacksonville-based artist and designer Karen Kurycki is on display through Aug. 17. A reception is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. June 14.

PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com.

Works by Claire J. Kendrick (“Botanical Series” oil paintings), Mary L. Gibson, Thomas Brock and Tony Gill are shown through June 30.

REDDI ARTS 1037 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-3161, reddiarts.com.

The Members Show, an exhibit of paintings by local and regional pastel artists of the First Coast Pastel Society, runs through June 28.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 808-7330, stjohnsculture.com. “Water Lines,” an exhibit of Dan Famiglietti’s works inspired by coastal waters, runs through July 2.

SOUTH GALLERY Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-2023, fscj.edu/mydegree/campuses/ wilson-center/venues/gallery.php. “Book of Days,” an exhibit of Donald Martin’s works in drawing, book arts, sculpture, painting and prints inspired by European daily devotionals in the late Middle Ages, is displayed through June 20.

“Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts Juried Summer Show” is displayed June 27-28 with a reception held at 5 p.m. June 27.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 6 E. Bay St., Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com.

Works in painting, photography and other media by more than 30 local artists and photographers are featured.

SPACE:EIGHT GALLERY 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838, spaceeight. com. “Dog Days,” an exhibit of works by artist and Emory University professor Sarah Emerson, is on display through July 31.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org.

“Ancient City Mosaic,” a juried exhibit of 450 pieces depicting impressions of St. Augustine, is featured at all six St. Johns County Public Libraries. The pieces will be strung together, hung in a grid format and displayed June 15-Aug. 10 at St. Augustine Art Association. The permanent collection features 16th-century artifacts detailing Sir Francis Drake’s 1586 burning of St. Augustine.

ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR CENTER 10 S. Castillo Dr., St. Augustine, 825-1000. “Picasso Art & Arena,” an exhibit showcasing 39 pieces of Pablo Picasso’s work from the Fundación Picasso Museo Casa Natal in Málaga, Spain, is on display through Aug. 11.

UNF GALLERY OF ART 1 UNF Drive, Bldg. 2, Ste. 1001, Southside, unf.edu/gallery.

“Commute,” an exhibit of recent work by UNF graduate and realist painter Scott Bell, is on display through July 3.

“Florida-Twenty Seven: Two Decades of Watching” – an exhibit of Florida photography by Bob Willis – is displayed through July 2.

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Protecting Primates, Preserving the Future For more information: info@endangeredprimate.org endangeredprimate.org

At 60, Nellie is the oldest living dolphin in human care. Photo: Amy Hanson

Marineland Marks 75 Years

After a colorful history as a movie studio and marine life attraction, © 2013 on education the park now focuses

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ith waves of the Atlantic Ocean crashing to your right and large tanks of crystal-blue water off to your left, the path to Marineland’s Dolphin Adventure is picture-perfect. The location of Marineland of Florida, 18 miles south of St. Augustine, was designed to give tourists a great view and keep the animals safe from a direct hurricane hit. Since opening on June 23, 1938, Marineland has survived its fair share of issues to stay afloat.

The concept of opening the “world’s first oceanarium” was quite grand back then, at a time when most Americans were entertained by listening to the radio. Filming marine life underwater would revolutionize movies, and dolphin attractions would help pay the bills.

During the 1960s, tourists clogged A1A to see the only dolphin shows in Florida.

Everything was smooth sailing for Marine Studios (the name Marineland of Florida was adopted in the 1950s) until SeaWorld arrived on the scene. Between the time when Disney World opened in 1971 and SeaWorld appeared in 1973, Marineland’s attendance peaked around 650,000 guests, a record for the park.

But as SeaWorld raised the bar on marine life attractions in the 1980s, Marineland’s major stockholder Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney decided to sell his shares, according to a 2005 Gainesville Sun story.

“When SeaWorld opened up, we downsized, and when I-95 opened, a lot of our traffic was taken away,” said Marineland assistant Sky Austin.

In the ’90s, Marineland’s attendance dropped below 300,000 and steadily decreased over the next 10 years. Mother Nature played a destructive role at the park as well; Hurricanes Floyd and Irene in 1999 forced the park to close for two months.

“When Hurricane Charlie hit in 2004, it

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HISTORIC PHOTOS

MARINELAND’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY

See a slideshow of Marineland through the years at folioweekly.com/happenings.

Marineland Dolphin Adventure, 9600 Oceanshore Blvd., St. Augustine 471-1111, marineland.net

wasn’t a direct hit, but the water damage was so bad, they had to tear everything down and sell most of all their land. We were going bankrupt at the time, so it was really, really rough,” Austin said.

In 2003, all of the park buildings west of A1A were demolished, leaving only the original structures along the Atlantic Ocean. In 2004, the park closed completely for renovation, reopening in 2006.

“Since our reopening, Marineland has shifted its focus from a show facility to an interactive facility and discontinued shows.

We offer close and personal experiences with dolphins,” said Jessica Fontana, Marineland’s public relations manager.

After changing ownership several times and battling financial and land issues, Marineland was purchased in January 2011

by Georgia Aquarium, based in Atlanta, for a reported $9 million.

The Marineland so many people remember is history now. These days, a concrete-block ivory building with dolphin cutouts stands where the Fudge Kitchen once was, and instead of posing for photos with the old diving suit, families pose near a huge shark’s jaw.

Instead of dolphin shows, Marineland currently offers touch-and-feed sessions with the dolphins, as well as “Behind the Seas” tours that uncover other sea creatures. And there are more programs to help tourists learn and interact with the dolphins.

On the “Behind the Seas” tour, visitors see a collection of artifacts from the oceanarium’s past and have up-close encounters with remoras (the fish that latch themselves onto

ONE HEALTH AND THE OCEANS: THE INTEGRATION OF MARINE MAMMAL, HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH 6 p.m. June 13 Whitney Auditorium Free admission Gregory Bossart, Georgia Aquarium senior vice president and chief veterinary officer, details his current work with dolphins as sentinel species and what we can learn from these important animals about our health and our environment.

FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL June 14-16 $19.38 + tax for a family of four BEACH BALL ANNIVERSARY DANCE PARTY 6:30-9:30 p.m. June 22 $75 per person, $100 per couple Food, drinks, dancing to music by Zebbhi Niyah band, fun under the Events Pavilion and exclusive park access to view animal habitats and “Behind the Seas” tour. sharks), an octopus, a red lionfish, stingrays and more.

Marineland is still home to 60-year-old Nellie, the oldest living dolphin in human care and Jacksonville University’s mascot.

Dolphins no longer perform for fish treats, but the history-filled park of childhood memories is still teaching visitors about marine life.

Amy Hanson themail@folioweekly.com

Happenings EVENTS

HOT TOPICS LUNCHEON Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai P. Vitti is the featured speaker, 11:30 a.m. June 12 at University Club, 1301 Riverplace Blvd., Southbank. Admission is $25.

613-9480.

GREAT DECISIONS Intervention is discussed at 6:30 p.m. June 13 at Southeast Branch Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Southside. The featured speaker is Christopher Baynard. 630-4655.

COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE Young Executive Society hosts this event 5-7 p.m. June 14 at University Club, 1301 Riverplace Blvd., 27th Floor, Southbank.

A raffle is featured. Proceeds benefit Northeast Florida AIDS Network. 396-1687, 356-1612. nfanjax.org COSMIC CONCERTS Laser shows are Jimmy Buffett 7 p.m., Beatles 8 p.m., U2 9 p.m. and Queen 10 p.m. June 14 in Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank. Online tickets are $5. Saturday cosmic concerts, held noon and 5 p.m., feature physical science, paleontology, history, entertainment, earth science and astronomy. 396-7062. moshplanetarium.org RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” 10:30 a.m., Ace Winn 11:30 a.m., Dean Johanesen 1 p.m., State of Mind 2:45 p.m. June 15 at the market, 2623 Herschel St., Riverside. Local and regional art and a farmers market are also featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. Free. 389-2449. riversideartsmarket.com WORLD JUGGLING DAY Juggling shows and workshops are featured 1 p.m. June 15 at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, 19 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine. Bring your own objects to juggle. 824-1606.

RIVERKEEPER FORUM The second annual Springs Forum is held 6 p.m. June 17 at Wyndham Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Dr., Southbank.

Featured speakers include Robert Knight, director of the Florida Springs Institute, Sister Patricia Seimen, J.D., director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at Barry University School of Law, and Lisa Rinaman, St. Johns Riverkeeper. stjohnsriverkeeper.org CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC The second annual Peter Bragan Sr. tournament is held June 18, with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m., at South Hampton Golf Club, 315 South Hampton Club Way, St. Augustine. Single golfer entry fee is $150. Proceeds benefit area charities. 3582846 ext. 106. jaxsuns.com

POLITICS, ACTIVISM, BUSINESS

JACKSONVILLE JOURNEY The oversight committee of this crime-fighting initiative meets at 4 p.m. June 20 in the Eighth Floor Conference Room 851, Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Downtown. 630-7306. coj.net

BOOKS & WRITING

WILL SCHWALBE Bestselling author Schwalbe reads and signs copies of his memoir, “The End of Your Life Book Club,” 7 p.m. June 14 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026.

ANTON DISCLAFANI Author Anton Disclafani talks and signs copies of her debut novel “The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls,” 7 p.m. June 19 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026.

COMEDY

COMEDY CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE Hawaiian comic Kermit Apio appears 8:04 p.m. June 13, 8:34 p.m. June 14 and 8:04 and 10:18 p.m. June 15 at the new club, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, Southside. Tickets range from $6-$25. 646-4277. jacksonvillecomedy.com LAVELL CRAWFORD The star of standup, TV and film appears 8 p.m. June 13, and 8 and 10 p.m. June 14-15 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Road (in Ramada Inn), Mandarin. Tickets are $25 and $30. Comedy Showcase is 8 p.m. June 18-19. 292-4242. comedyzone.com THE GYPSY COMEDY CLUB Former schoolteacher Mike Rivera appears 8:30 p.m. June 15 at 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Tickets are $10 and $12. 461-8843.

MAD COWFORD Mad Cowford Improv performs 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown. Admission is $5. 860-5451.

THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE Brian Foley hosts various comedians 7-8 p.m. every Sun. at Three Layers Café, 1602 Walnut St., Springfield. 355-9791.

SQUARE ONE STANDUP Moses West and Herman Nazworth host standup and spoken word 9 p.m. every Tue. at Square One, 1974 San Marco Blvd., San Marco. 306-9004.

NATURE, SPORTS, OUTDOORS

JACKSONVILLE SUNS The Suns kick off a homestand against the Montgomery Biscuits 7:05 p.m. June 13 (Thursday Throwdown) at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. We continue to try to beat the Biscuits, 7:05 p.m. June 14 (Report Card Night, Mr. Belding), and 15 (Blood Drive, Mike Stanton Jersey Pen & Pencil Holder Giveaway). The Biscuits are still here, 3:05 p.m. June 16 (Catch on the Field with Dad, Kids Run the Bases) and 12:05 p.m. June 17 (Camp Day). Tickets are $7.50-$25.50. 358-2846. jaxsuns.com GUIDED BEACH EXPLORATION GTM Research Reserve hosts “Beaches 101” free beach walk 8:30-10:30 a.m. June 15 at Guana South Beach location, off A1A, South Ponte Vedra Beach, toward St. Augustine. There is a $3 per vehicle parking fee. 823-4500.

TALBOT CRITTERS To celebrate Great Outdoors Month, a park ranger discusses the many common species that inhabit the natural communities of the undeveloped barrier islands of Northeast Florida, 2 p.m. June 15 at Ribault Club, Ft. George Island Cultural State Park, 11241 Ft. George Road, Ft. George Island.

No reservations are necessary and the program is free.

251-2320. floridastateparks.org/littletalbotisland JACKSONVILLE UNITED FC PRO SOCCER The local National Premier Soccer League pro soccer team takes on the Cape Coral Hurricanes 8 p.m. June 15 at Patton Park, 2850 Hodges Blvd., Southside. Tickets start at $5; a season pass is $20 for adults; $10 for kids 5-10. jacksonvilleunited.com MARINELAND LECTURE SERIES GTM Research Reserve presents Dr. David Godwin, who discusses wildfire resources for homeowners, communities, businesses, landowners and resource managers, 10-11 a.m.

June 18 at Marineland field station, 9741 OceanShore Blvd., off A1A. For reservations, call 823-4500.

KIDS

ADVENTURES IN THE ESTUARY SUMMER CAMP GTM Research Reserve offers this camp 9 a.m.-3 p.m. through June 14 at Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra. Kids ages 7-10 get a hands-on adventure in the estuary, conducting real estuarine science. To register, go to gtmnerrcamp.eventbrite.com.

MUSIC CAMPS First Coast Community School offers music camps, including World of Music for kids ages 5-7, held 3-4 p.m. every Tue., through July 30, at FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Bldg. N-102, Southside. Rock It Out guitar camp in grades 5-9 is held 9 a.m.-noon June 24-28; Intermediate Level Orchestra Camp and Piano Camp for kids in grades 5-9 are held 8 a.m.-noon July 8-19; Intermediate Band Camp for kids in grades 6-9 is held 8 a.m.-noon July 22-Aug. 2; Beginning Piano Camp for kids in grades 2-6 is held 8 a.m.-noon July 22-Aug. 2 and All State High School Boot Camp for kids in grades 9-12 is held 1-4 p.m. July 22-Aug. 2. For fees and details, call 646-2004 or go to fccmusicschool.org.

ICE SKATING CAMPS Kids of all skill levels learn to skate or work on ice-skating skills at Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex Skating Academy, 3605 Philips Highway, Southside. On and off ice skating instruction, age-appropriate activities, a lunch program, and extended care available. Campers receive a swag bag. Camp themes are Star Wars Celebration, June 17-21; Disney Magic, June 24-28; Motown Mania, July 15-19; Princess & Super Heroes, July 22-26; Divalicious, July 29-Aug. 2 and Music Explosion, Aug. 12-16. 399-3223. jaxiceandsportsplex.com JACKSONVILLE SUNS BASEBALL CAMP The camp is held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. July 11-12 for kids ages 7-12 at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. Camp fee of $90.95 includes lunch both days, a T-shirt, ball cap and ticket to a game. 358-2846.

KUMON ACADEMIC CAMP Kumon offers academic enrichment programs to help children move beyond grade levels. 2039 Park St., Riverside, 3811200; 9978 Old Baymeadows Road, Ste. 2, Baymeadows, 642-9566; 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 18, Mandarin, 2688861; 280 Solana Road, Ponte Vedra Beach, 285-7775; 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 27, Arlington, 744-2445. kumon.com

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Riverside’s Southern-style gastropub, The Salty Fig, is celebrating six months in business as a brick-and-mortar restaurant. It began amassing a following about a year ago as an upscale food truck serving Southern favorites like creole shrimp and cheese grits, ratatouille sliders and cochon de lait.

It’s obvious that owners (and brothers) Jeff and John Stanford have put a lot of thought into the interior. The softly lit bar area features a long community table crafted from the restaurant’s rafter © wood.

Exposed brick walls 2012 and high ceilings are found throughout, and there are some spots near the kitchen to watch the chefs in action.

While simple, the edamame tossed with hickory-smoked sea salt is oddly addictive, as are the crunchy homemade chips topped with a rich gorgonzola fondue, balsamic glaze and chives.

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arugula and melted provolone pressed between two slices of buttered toast, accompanied by your choice of salad or fries.

Another favorite is blue pear salad: mixed greens, sweet d’anjou pear slices, juicy blueberries, Maytag blue cheese crumbles and slivered red onions, tossed in a tangy lemon thyme vinaigrette.

For dinner, start with a cup of the signature gumbo — it’s thick, slightly spicy and full of okra, shrimp and Andouille sausage, then topped with rice and scallions.

Mayport shrimp, creamy stoneground goat cheese grits, Creole trinity (onions, peppers and celery) and New Orleans barbecue sauce make for a flavorful dish — and one of the best versions of this Southern specialty in town.

Consider ordering one of the daily specials Chef Jeff whips up. The recent lamb wontons were unforgettable: braised lamb shank with parsnip puree, butternut squash, shiitake mushrooms, arugula and a slightly sweet pearport gastrique.

The can’t-miss-it dessert, espresso “coffee and doughnuts,” is a fun take on New Orleans beignets.

If you’re thirsty, try a watermelon jalapeño margarita (the simple syrup is infused with fresh jalapeños) or the Dark Moon (Catdaddy moonshine, lemon, agave nectar, apple juice and ginger ale served in a Mason jar).

The Stanford brothers will soon offer at least one vegan option, as well as gluten-free items.

The Salty Fig is open daily for lunch and dinner and brunch on the weekends ($10 bottomless mimosas available 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sundays). Happy hour is 4-7 p.m. TuesdayFriday and all day Monday, when moonshine cocktails are $6 and moonshine is half-price.

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Dining THE STEAKHOUSE AT GOLD CLUB 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500. F 2012 BOJ winner. Daily lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffet Thur. & Fri. $$$ L D Daily UNIVERSITY DINER 5959 Merrill Rd., 762-3433. Breakfast and lunch: meatloaf, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, BLTs, clubs, melts. Daily specials. $$ B L Daily

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Average EntrÊe Cost: $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up = Beer, Wine = Full Bar � = Children’s Menu = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner *Bite Club Certified! = Restaurant hosted a free Folio Weekly Bite Club tasting. Join at fwbiteclub.com 2012 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE (Venues are in Fernandina Beach unless otherwise noted.)

29 SOUTH EATS 29 S. Third St., 277-7919. F In historic district, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional world cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITO’S 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505; 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240. Southwestern fare, made-to-order burritos, tacos, quesadillas, nachos. $ � L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Upscale on the water in historic area. Southern hospitality; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ L D Daily BRIGHT MORNINGS 105 S. Third St., 491-1771. Small cafÊ behind Amelia SanJon Gallery. $$ B R L Thur.-Tue. CAFE KARIBO 27 N. Third St., 277-5269. F In a historic building, family-owned spot serves homemade veggie burgers, fresh seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Karibrew Pub. $$ � L D Tue.-Sat.; L Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663. F European-style breads, pastries, croissants, muffins, pies; most breads without fat or sugar. $ B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 802 Ash St., 310-6049.

Fine-dining place serves New York strip, ribeye, Dover sole, Chilean sea bass. $$$ D Nightly HALFTIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL Owner Jon Walker 320 S. Eighth St., 321-0303. Sports bar fare: onion rings, spring rolls, burgers, wraps and wings. $ L D Daily THE HAPPY TOMATO COURTYARD CAFE & BBQ 7 S. Third St., 321-0707. F Historic district spot has sandwiches, pulled pork, smoked turkey, ribs. $ � L Mon.-Sat. JACK & DIANE’S 708 Centre St., 321-1444. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun home. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan and vegetarian selections. $$ � B L D Daily KABUKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 1147 Amelia Plaza, 277-8782. Certified Angus steaks and fresh seafood all MSG-free. Sushi bar, teppanyaki grill. $$ D Tue.-Sun. KELLEY’S COURTYARD CAFÉ 19 S. Third St., 432-8213.

In historic district, family-owned-and-operated spot serves sandwiches, wraps, soups, vegetarian options and down-home favorites, like fried green tomatoes. $ � L D Mon.-Sat. LULU’S AT THE THOMPSON HOUSE 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394. F Po’boys, seafood little plates served in a historic house. Fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp.

Reservations recommended. $$ R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat.

MOON RIVER PIZZA 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400. F See Riverside. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Mon.-Sat. MURRAY’S GRILLE 463852 E. S.R. 200/A1A, Yulee, 261-2727.

Seafood, pastas and barbecue; hand-cut steaks, grouper Elizabeth and homemade Key lime pie. $ L D Daily THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141.

Snail of Approval winner; casual organic eatery and juice bar in Nassau Health Foods has all-natural, organic items, smoothies, veggie juices, coffees and herbal teas. $$ B L Mon.-Sat. PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL CANTINA 530 Centre St., 277-2011; 96096 Lofton Square Court, Yulee, 491-6955. F This casual, family-friendly restaurant features daily specials. $$ � L D Daily PLAE 80 Amelia Village Circle, Amelia Island, 277-2132. Bite Club certified. In the Spa & Shops at Omni Amelia Island Plantation, the bistro style venue offers whole fried fish and duck breast, artistic dÊcor. $$$ D Nightly SALT, THE GRILL 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, 491-6746. 2012 BOJ winner. Chef de Cuisine Richard Laughlin offers cuisine made with simple earth and sea elements in a coastal setting. $$$$ D Tue.-Sat. SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL 12 N. Front St., 277-3811. ICW view from second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys and the original broiled cheese oysters. $$ L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652.

F Oceanfront, Caribbean-style spot serves handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Kids’ beachfront area, open-air second floor and balcony. $$ � L D Daily THE SURF RESTAURANT & BAR 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711. F Oceanview dining, inside or out on the deck.

Steaks, fresh fish, nightly specials; Sunday lobster special. $$ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES 710 Centre St., 321-0409.

F In historic district. Fresh meat, hand-cut fries, homemade sauces and soups and hand-spun shakes. $ � L D Daily TIMOTI’S FRY SHAK 21 N. Third St., 310-6550. F Casual seafood place features fresh, local wild-caught shrimp, fish, oysters, blackboard specials. $ � L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2012 BOJ winner. This spot in an old gas station is known for its blue plate specials. $ B L Mon.-Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

AJ’S BAR & GRILL 10244 Atlantic Blvd., 805-9060. Burgers, wings. $$ L D Daily CLEOTA’S SOUTHERN AMERICAN CUISINE 2111 University Blvd. N., 800-2102. F Locally owned and operated. Southern fare in a family spot: fried green tomatoes, fried chicken, shrimp & grits, mac & cheese, gourmet desserts. $ L D Tue.-Sun. COTTEN’S BAR-B-QUE 2048 Rogero Rd., 743-1233. Fred Cotten Jr. has been making pit-cooked barbecue for 25+ years. $ � L D Daily GRINDERS CAFE 10230 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 8 & 9, 725-2712.

20+ years of homestyle veggies, burgers, meatloaf, pork chops, seafood and desserts. $ � B L Daily THE HOT DOG SPOT & MORE 2771 Monument Rd., Ste. 32, Regency, 646-0050. Sausages, all-beef hot dogs, wings, Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, all cooked to order. $ � L Daily KABUTO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 10055 Atlantic Blvd., 724-8883. Steak, filet mignon, lobster, shrimp, sushi, teppanyaki, traditional dishes. $$$ � L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 9541 Regency Square Blvd. S., 720-0551. See Southside. $$ � L D Daily THE MUDVILLE GRILLE 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 1, 722-0008. Friendy family sports spot serves steaks, wings, burgers. $ L D Daily NERO’S CAFÉ 3607 University Blvd. N., 743-3141. F Traditional Italian-style fare, nightly dinner specials, veal, seafood, pasta, New York-style pizzas. $$ � D Nightly RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS 1825 University Blvd. N., 745-0335.

Cigar and hookah lounge has a full kitchen. $ D Nightly

BAGEL LOVE 4114 Herschel St., 634-7253. F Bagels, sandwiches, subs, bakery items. $ B R L Daily BISCOTTIS 3556 St. Johns Ave., 387-2060. F 2012 BOJ winner. Innovative pizzas, dessert selection. $$$ B R L D Daily THE BLUE FISH RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700. F Fresh seafood, steaks, chops, small plates in a casual place. Gluten-free entrĂŠes, oyster bar. Reservations recommended. $$ đ?–˘ R Sun.; L Mon.-Sat., D Nightly BRICK RESTAURANT 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606. F Soups, sandwiches, burgers, lamb chops, seafood entrees, veggie burger, desserts. $$$ L D Daily THE CASBAH CAFE 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966. F 2012 BOJ winner. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine on the patio or in hookah lounge. $$ L D Daily ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40, 388-4884. F Celebrating five years, the churrascaria features gauchos who carve the meat to your plate from serving tables. $$$ D Tue.-Sun. FLORIDA CREAMERY 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386.

Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes, Nathan’s hot dogs. Low-fat, sugar-free items. $ � L D Daily THE FOX RESTAURANT 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day; burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ � L D Daily THE FRINGE EATERY 934 Edgewood Ave. S., 402-6446.

Steampunk gallery and performance space serves soups, wraps, coffees and teas. $$ Tue.-Sun. GREEN MAN GOURMET 3543 St. Johns Ave., 384-0002. F Organic, natural products, spices, teas, salts. $ Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2012 BOJ winner. Southern blues kitchen has pulled pork, Carolina barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish, shrimp & grits. $$ � B L D Daily ORSAY 3630 Park St., 381-0909. 2012 BOJ winner. French/ American bistro serves steak frites, mussels, Alsatian pork chops; local organic ingredients. $$$ R D Mon.-Sat. SAKE HOUSE #5 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 3620 St. Johns Ave., 388-5688. See Riverside. $$ L D Daily TERRA 4260 Herschel St., 388-9124. Comfy spot serves local, sustainable and world cuisine in a simple, creative style. Small plates include chorizo stuffed mushrooms, pork belly skewers; entrÊs include lamb chops, seared tuna and ribeye. Lunch menu features sandwiches. Craft beers. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. TOM & BETTY’S 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311. F 40+ years; the car-themed menu has sandwiches, burgers, pot roast. $ � L D Tue.-Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily ANCIENT CITY SUBS 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 207, 446-9988.

F Owned-and-operated by Andy and Rhonna Rockwell, St. Augustine-themed shop serves gourmet subs toasted, pressed or cold. $ � L D Mon.-Sat. BOWL OF PHO 9902 Old Baymeadows Rd., 646-4455. Fresh Thai, Vietnamese dishes, authentic ingredients; egg rolls, grilled pork, chicken, lotus root salad, fried rice. Boba. $$ L D Daily BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 519-8000. F Family-owned-and-operated Italian place serves calzones, stromboli, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. $$ � L D Daily DEERWOOD DELI & DINER 9934 Old Baymeadows Rd., 641-4877. F ’50s-style diner serves burgers, Reubens, shakes, Coke floats. $ � B L Daily IZZY’S PIZZERIA & SPORTS BAR Owner Javier Roldan 8206 Philips Hwy., 731-9797.

Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas, hot dogs and a variety of Italian dishes. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily THE FIFTH ELEMENT 9485 Baymeadows Rd., 448-8265. F Authentic Indian, South Indian and Indochinese fare, lunch buffet of lamb, goat, chicken dishes, tandoori, biryani items. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily GATORS DOCKSIDE 8650 Baymeadows Rd., 448-0500.

Sports-themed family restaurant serves grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ � L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777. F 2012 BOJ winner. Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curry and vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740; 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2012 BOJ winner.

They pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. $ � B L D Daily LEMONGRASS 9846 Old Baymeadows Rd., 645-9911. F Thai cuisine; Chef Aphayasane’s creations include crispy whole fish with pineapple curry reduction, and The Amazing. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN LEBANESE CUISINE 9862 Old Baymeadows Rd., 646-1881. F Bite Club certified.

Owner Pierre Barakat offers authentic Lebanese cuisine, charcoal-grilled lamb kebab. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. MEDITERRANIA RESTAURANT 3877 Baymeadows Rd., 731-2898. Family-owned-and-operated Greek/Italian place.

Fresh seafood, veal, lamb. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. F 2012 BOJ winner. Fresh, organic; vegetarian, vegan, raw food, gluten-free, sandwiches, deli, hot bar dishes, chopped salad bar, wraps, baked goods.

Juice, smoothie & coffee bar. $ đ?–˘ B L D Daily OMAHA STEAKHOUSE 9300 Baymeadows Rd., 739-6633.

Bite Club certified. English tavern in Embassy Suites Hotel; center-cut beef, fresh seafood, sandwiches, signature 16-ounce bone-in ribeye. $$ L D Daily ORANGE TREE HOT DOGS 8380 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 4, 733-0588. 2012 BOJ winner. Hot dogs w/ slaw, chili, cheese, onion sauce, sauerkraut; pizzas. $ L D Mon.-Sat. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506. F Traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai, curries, seafood, noodles and soups. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649. F See San Marco. $$ L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sports bar fare; 20+ beers on tap. $ � L D Daily STICKY FINGERS 8129 Point Meadows Way, 493-7427. F Memphis-style rib house smokes ribs, barbecue, rotisserie chicken over aged hickory wood. $$ L D Daily STONEWOOD GRILL TAVERN 3832 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 739-7206. See Beaches. $$ L D Daily THREE F(X) ICE CREAM & WAFFLES 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 6, 928-9559. Ice cream made-to-order. Milk: whole, soy, almond; toppings; in taiyaki Asian waffles. $ � B R L Daily TONY D’S NY PIZZA & RESTAURANT 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 322-7051. Authentic New York pizza, pasta. $ � L D Daily

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(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

1ST OCEAN GRILLE 333 First St. N., 595-5965. F Modern American fare features seafood, steaks. $$$ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily A LA CARTE 331 First Ave. N., 241-2005. Authentic New England fare: Maine lobster rolls, Ipswich clams, crab cake sandwich, shrimp basket, clam chowdah. $$ L Thur.-Tue. AL’S PIZZA 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. F Home of the original baked sub, hot or cold subs, fresh ingredients, for 25+ years; blue-ribbon iced tea. $ L D Daily BAGEL WORLD 2202 Third St. S., 246-9988. F 2012 BOJ winner. Cozy place has a breakfast special (eggs, ham and cheese), coffees and juices. $ B L Daily BEACH HUT CAFÉ 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. F 25+ years.

Breakfast all day; hot plate specials. $ đ?–˘ B R L Daily BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & MARKET 120 Third St. S., 444-8862. F Full fresh seafood market serves seafood baskets, fish tacos, daily fish specials and Philly cheesesteaks.

Open-air upstairs deck. $$ � L D Daily BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL 205 First St. N., 249-0083. This casual spot features American fare with a Caribbean soul. $$ � L D Tue.-Sun. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 1266 Third St. S., 249-8704; 1307 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 270-2666. F See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BREEZY COFFEE SHOP CAFE 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211.

F Casual spot has baked goods, espressos, coffees; vegan and gluten-free options. $ đ?–˘ B R L Daily BUDDHA THAI BISTRO 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444. F The proprietors are from Thailand, every dish is made with fresh ingredients from tried-and-true recipes. $$ L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY EXPRESS 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226.

F 2012 BOJ winner. See Downtown. $ L D Daily CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA 127 First Ave. N., 249-3322.F 2012 BOJ winner. Chili rellenos, tamales, fajitas, enchiladas, fish tacos, fried ice cream. $$ � D Nightly CASA MARIA 2429 Third St. S., 372-9000. F See Springfield. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � L D Daily CASA MARINA RESTAURANT 691 First St. N., 270-0025. Tapas, crab cakes, Kobe sliders, burgers, tacos. Penthouse Lounge, verandah, oceanfront courtyard. $$$ R Tue.-Fri.; D Nightly CINOTTI’S BAKERY, DELI & BOUTIQUE 1523 Penman Rd., 246-1728. Since 1964. Cakes, pies, breads, desserts, bagels, chicken salad, sandwiches. $ � B R L Tue.-Sat. CRUISERS GRILL 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356. F 2012 BOJ winner. Locally owned & operated 15+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, award-winning cheddar fries. $ � L D Daily

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CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595. Bite Club certified. Upscale Irish gastropub. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef. $$ � R S/S; D Tue.-Sun. D&LP SUBS 1409 Third St. S., 247-4700. Subs, gourmet salads, wings, pizza, pasta. $ � L D Daily DAVINCI’S PIZZA 469 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-2001.

Family-owned-and-operated. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 2434 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 372-0298. NASCAR-themed place has 365 varieties of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ � L D Daily DIRTY REDS 1451 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 372-9438.

F This new spot serves casual Cajun/Creole/Southern fare: shrimp & grits, po’boys, smoked ribs & brisket, red beans & rice. Sides: mac-n-cheese, collards, corn maque choux, candied yams, smoked baked beans. $$ � D Tue.-Sun. DWIGHT’S MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO 1527 Penman Rd., 241-4496. Hand-rolled pasta, grilled vegetables. Owner/ Chef Dwight DeLude uses an exhibition kitchen. Reservations suggested. $$$$ D Tue.-Sat. EL POTRO 1553 Third St. N., 241-6910. Everything’s fresh and made-to-order. Daily specials, buffet. $ L D Daily ELEVEN SOUTH 216 11th Ave. S., 241-1112. New American eclectic cuisine, a mesquite grill and courtyard dining. $$$ L Tue.-Fri.; D Daily ELLEN’S KITCHEN 1824 S. Third St., Pablo Plaza, 246-1572.

F Since 1962. Breakfast all day; sandwiches. $ B L Daily ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337. F Gastropub fare: soups, flatbreads, specialty sandwiches. $ � L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 922 Beach Blvd., 249-3001.

F 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. Classic Reuben, sandwiches. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily THE FISH COMPANY RESTAURANT 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, Atlantic Beach, 246-0123. F Bite Club certified. Oyster bar. Fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, oysters, crabs, lobster. Oyster Nights Tue. & Wed. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily THE HALF MOON RAW BAR 1289 Penman Rd., 372-0549.

Oysters, shrimp, clams, crawfish, daily chef’s specials. And they open your oysters. $$ � L D Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Fri. HOT DOG HUT 1439 Third St. S., 247-3641. F Dogs, burgers, sausages, beer-battered onion rings, fries. $ B L Daily ICHIBAN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE 675 Third St. N., 247-4688. F Three areas: teppan or hibachi tables, sushi bar; Western-style seating. Tempura, teriyaki. Plum wine. $$ D Nightly JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT 30 Ocean Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 270-1122. F Familyowned-and-operated. Pasta, gourmet pizzas, veal. $$ L D Daily LANDSHARK CAFE 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024. F Locally owned and operated. Fresh, right-off-the-boat local seafood, fish tacos, houseground burgers, wings, handcut fries and tater tots; daily specials. $$ � L D Daily; R Sun. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, desserts. $$ B L D Daily KC CRAVE 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660. Chris Jones and Andy Viola offer American fusion: shareable fine fare expertly served in a polished-casual atmosphere. Buzzworthy bar, specialty drinks. $$ R Sun.; D Tue.-Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB 514 N. First St., 249-5181. F Corned beef & cabbage, shepherd’s pie, fish & chips. Beer & ale on tap. $$ L D Daily MARIO’S AT THE BEACH 1830 Third St. N., 246-0005.

Family-friendly spot has New York-style pizzas, stromboli, pasta, , veal, shrimp, vegetarian dishes. $$$ L Mon.Sat.; D Nightly MARLIN MOON GRILLE 1183 Beach Blvd., 372-4438. F In the old TacoLu. Fresh crab cakes – owner Gary Beach’s from the Eastern Shore – and fresh-cut fries. $$ � D Wed.-Mon. MAZA NEW AMERICAN CUISINE 7251 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-6292. All-American fare, as well as dishes of various ethnic cuisines, like lamb shanks, pork belly, sushi rolls, chicken tandoori, foie gras and homemade gyros. $$$ L D Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600. F Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. Gourmet pizzas, hoagies. Mighty Meaty pizza to vegetarian Kosmic Karma. $ � L D Daily METRO DINER 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F 2012 BOJ winner. The upscale diner serves breakfast, plus meatloaf, chicken pot pie and homemade soups. $$ R B L Daily MEZZA LUNA PIZZERIA RISTORANTE 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573. F Near-the-ocean eatery. 20+ years.

Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. $$$ � D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. See Avondale. F 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � B L D Daily MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070. F Burgers, sandwiches, seafood, wings. $ L D Daily M SHACK 299 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-2599. F Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. $$ L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105. Bite Club certified. Casual neighborhood eatery serves hand-cut steaks, fresh seafood, tapas menu. $$$ � R Sun.; L D Daily

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PHO A NOODLE BAR 117 W. Adams St., 353-0320. Authentic Vietnamese and Thai dishes: egg rolls, potstickers. Pho bowls: standard, vegan, pho tom yum, sukiyaki, kelp noodle substitute. Boba, teas, coffee. $ L Mon.-Fri. D Wed.-Sat. THE SKYLINE DINING & CONFERENCE CENTER 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 4200, 791-9533, ext. 241. On Bank of America’s 42nd floor, this cafe offers a riverview. $$ L Mon.-Fri. TRELLISES RESTAURANT 225 E. Coastline Dr., Hyatt, 634-4540. American à la carte dining: original fresh seafood, regional dishes, buffet, breakfast. $$$ � B L Daily ZODIAC GRILL 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283. F American and Mediterranean favorites in a casual spot; panini, vegetarian.

Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. $ L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

Chef and owner George Koutroumanos of 3rd Street Diner, known for its quality Greek fare with an American twist, offers a sweet assortment of desserts such as the carrot cake and New York cheesecake in Jacksonville Beach.

Photo: Dennis Ho

NORTH BEACH FISH CAMP 100 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-3474. Oceanview roof-top bar. Creative Southern fare, fresh seafood and bread pudding. $$ L Wed.-Sun.; D Nightly OCEAN 60 RESTAURANT, WINE BAR & MARTINI ROOM 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060. 2012 BOJ winner.

Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials, seasonal menu. $$ D Mon.-Sat. OLD FLORIDA FISH CAMP & SEAFOOD SHACK 2510 Second Ave. N., 334-8408. This new spot offers island waterfront dining featuring fresh local seafood. Dine inside or on the patio. Airboat & dolphin tours. $$ đ?–˘ L D R Wed.-Sun. THE PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR 412 N. First St., 246-6454.

Casual oceanfront place has a Mexican-influenced menu.

Downstairs Sandbar. $$$ L D Daily POE’S TAVERN 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637.

F American gastropub. 50+ beers. Gourmet burgers, handcut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ � L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. F 25+ years.Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 592 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 273-3113.

F Casual, authentic New York-style pizzeria offers calzones, antipasto, parmigiana. By the slice or full pie. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily ROYAL PALM VILLAGE WINE & TAPAS 296 Royal Palms Dr., Atlantic Beach, 372-0052. F Locally owned and operated.

1,200+ fine wine, 200 bottled beers, 15 microbrewed drafts pair with tapas. $$ D Mon.-Sat. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456. F 2012 BOJ winner. Signature tuna poke bowl, sushi, tacos, local fried shrimp, an open-air space. $$ � L D Daily SEAFOOD KITCHEN 31 Royal Palms Dr., Atlantic Beach, 241-8470. 20+ years, no-frills atmosphere. Fresh local seafood. $ L D Daily SINGLETON’S SEAFOOD SHACK 4728 Ocean St., Mayport Village, 246-4442. F Casual spot by the Mayport ferry since the ’60s. Fried shrimp, blackened or grilled fish. Enclosed riverfront porch. $ � L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE 218 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 246-0881. F Beach-casual. Fresh fish, fish tacos, gumbo, Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ � D Nightly SMASHBURGER 630 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 241-2666. Do-it-yourself burgers and chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, sides and fries. $ � L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Sportsbar fare, 20+ beers on tap. $ � L D Daily SOUP’S ON JACKSONVILLE 645 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 387-9394. BOJ winner. Soups, sandwiches, seafood, vegetarian/vegan items. $ L D Daily STONEWOOD GRILL TAVERN 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 285-2311. Classic American menu. $$ L D Daily SUN DELI 1011 S. Third St., 270-1040. F 2012 BOJ winner. Reubens, corned beef, salami, liverwurst. Radical Side (tuna salad, egg salad, cheese) or 9.0 (Philly steak, cheese, chopped bacon, pepperoni, blackened seasoning). $ L D Mon.-Sat. TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226.

F 2012 BOJ winner. In the old Homestead, Baja-style.

Mexican fare: fish tacos, Bangin Shrimp, verde chicken tacos and fried cheese that isn’t fried. $$ � R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri. 3RD STREET DINER 223 Ninth Ave. S., 270-0080. F Greek/American fare served Yankee style for 11+ years. A variety of quality, homestyle dishes: gyros, ribs, lamb, liver & onions. $ � B L D Daily TOMO JAPANESE RESTAURANT 1253 Penman Rd.,

372-4369. F Fresh, authentic, upscale, Japanese-owned.

Handmade sushi, hibachi grill items, homemade-style dishes. $ đ?–˘ D Nightly WIPEOUTS GRILL 1585 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508. F Casual, beachy sports spot serves burgers, wings, fish tacos. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily ZETA 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727. New place features tapas and sharing plates, flats, salads, sandwiches, burgers. Latenight upscale urban fusion. $$ L Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Sun.

DOWNTOWN

(Jacksonville Landing venues are at 2 Independent Drive)

BENNY’S SANDWICH SHOP 121 W. Forsyth St., 634-1525.

For 27 years, Benny’s – in an old bank vault – has made everything from scratch. Favorites: taco salad, creamy potato soup. $ B L Mon.-Fri. BENNY’S STEAK & SEAFOOD Ste. 175, Jacksonville Landing, 301-1014. Continental cuisine. Signature dish: Filet Christian. $$$ � L D Daily BIG PETE’S OLD STYLE PIZZERIA 118 N. Julia St., 356-2680.

All from scratch: pizza, calzones, baked ziti, wraps. Barbecue. $$ L D Mon.-Fri. BRAZILIAN CORNER 100 E. Forsyth St., 633-9028. Authentic fare: churrasco misto (steak & sausage), muqueca de peixe (fish in coconut milk), plus burgers, subs, paninis, sandwiches.

Brazilian coffee. $ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BURRITO GALLERY & BAR 21 E. Adams St., 598-2922. F 2012 BOJ winner. Southwestern cuisine. Burritos: ginger teriyaki tofu and blackened mahi. $ L D Mon.-Sat. CAFÉ NOLA 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911. Museum of Contemporary Art. Shrimp & grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, desserts. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Thur. & ArtWalk CASA DORA 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Owner/chef Sam Hamidi has served Italian fare for 35+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $$ � L D Mon.-Sat. CHOMP CHOMP 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F This spot has eats at moderate prices – most under $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi, barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. CURRENTS LOUNGE 225 E. Coastline Dr., Hyatt Regency, 634-4043. Apps, cafÊ fare, desserts. $$ B L D Daily DE REAL TING CAFÉ 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738. F Caribbean place features jerk or curried chicken, conch fritters, curried goat and oxtail. $ L Tue.-Fri.; D Fri. & Sat. EINSTEIN BROS. BAGELS 225 E. Coastline Dr., 634-4579.

See Arlington. $ B L Daily FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB/RESTAURANT Ste. 176, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1547. 2012 BOJ winner. Casual fare in an uptown Irish atmosphere: fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ � L D Daily INDOCHINE 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303. 2012 BOJ winner. Thai and Southeast Asian cuisine; signature dishes are chicken Satay, soft shell crab, sticky rice. $$ L D Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 830 N. Pearl St., 353-6388.

For 56+ years, family-owned Jenkins Barbecue has served down-home barbecue. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily KOJA SUSHI Jacksonville Landing, 350-9911. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sushi, sashimi; Japanese, Asian and Korean cuisine; hard-to-find items like baby octopus salad. $$ L D Daily LE SHEA’S HOMESTYLE EATERY 119 W. Adams St., 3545685. Southern and soul food: meat loaf, fried chicken, burgers, spaghetti, sides. $ L Mon.-Fri. NORTHSTAR PIZZA BAR & SUBSTATION 119 E. Bay, 8605451. Brick-oven-baked pizza, grinders, wings, cheesesteaks, sandwiches. 27 beers on tap. $ L D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100. F Made-fromscratch soups, sandwiches; they cure their own bacon and pickle their own pickles. $$ B R L Mon.-Fri.

BRICK OVEN PIZZERIA & GASTROPUB 1811 Town Center Blvd., 278-1770. F The brand-new family-owned-andoperated spot offers freshly made New York and Chicagostyle pizzas, specialty burgers, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, craft beers. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily KANKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE/SUSHI BAR 2009 East-West Pkwy., 269-3003. Teppanyaki tables, sushi tables, sushi bar.

Steaks and seafood. $$ đ?–˘ D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified.

2012 BOJ winner. $ � L D Daily MERCURY MOON GRILL BAR 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999. F Wings, signature sandwiches, Philly cheesesteak, fried fish sandwich, half-pound Moon burger. $ D Nightly MOJO SMOKEHOUSE 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � B L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL 1605 C.R. 220, 278-9421. F Burgers, sandwiches and entrees. $$ � L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198. F Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. $ � L D Tue.-Sun.; D Mon. YOUR PIE 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771. F Owner Mike Sims’ concept: Choose from three doughs, nine sauces, seven cheeses and 40+ toppings and make your own pizza pie. $$ � L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

ABE’S PIZZA GRILL 12192 Beach Blvd., 425-3983. Italian dishes, lasagna, parmigiana, pizza, subs, pasta, wings. $$ � L D Daily AL’S PIZZA 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F Celebrating 20+ years and seven locations, Al’s offers a selection of New York-style and gourmet pizzas, salads. $ � L D Daily AROY THAI FUSION 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 374-0161.

Authentic Thai cuisine, pad Thai, Thai fried rice and traditional curry dishes. $$ L D Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly BITTER SWEET BAKERY & EATERY 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 223-0457. Desserts, sandwiches, breakfast to-go. $$ B L Tue.-Sun. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 3303 San Pablo Rd. S., 223-1391. F See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas, desserts, family spot. $ � L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CASTILLO DE MEXICO 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 19, 998-7006. F An extensive menu served in authentic Mexican dÊcor. Weekday lunch buffet. $$ L D Daily CLIFF’S ROCKIN BAR-N-GRILL 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162. F Burgers, wings, seafood, pizza, daily specials, handcut 12-ounce New York strip. $$ L D daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. See Beaches. $ � L D Daily EL RANCHITO 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 22, 992-4607. F Authentic – really – Latin American cuisine: dishes from Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. $$ � L D Daily EPIK BURGER 12740 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 105, 374-7326.

Burgers made from grass-fed beef, ahi tuna, all-natural chicken and vegan are created with innovative recipes; gluten-free options. $ đ?–˘ L D Mon.-Sat. FIRST WATCH 13470 Beach Blvd., 223-0909. French toast, eggs, pancakes, crepes, waffles, sandwiches. $ đ?–˘ B L Daily FUJI SUSHI 13740 Beach Blvd., 992-8998. Fuji Sushi offers dine-in and take-out Japanese fare. $ L D Daily iPHO 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 330-0309. New, familyowned spot has curry dishes, noodle bowls, rare beef salad.

Everything’s homemade-style. $ L D Tue.-Thur.

JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766. F Hand-cut steaks, wings, burgers. $ � B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MAHARLIKA HALL & SPORTS GRILL 14255 Beach Blvd., Ste. E, 699-0759. This Filipino-American restaurant and market features popular items like pancit bami, lumpia, turon strudle and halo halo with ice cream. $-$$ � R L D Daily

Dining GRILL ME!

A WEEKLY Q&A WITH PEOPLE IN THE FOOD BIZ

NAME: Matt Kemper RESTAURANT: KC Crave, 1161 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach BIRTHPLACE: Grayson, Ky. YEARS IN THE BIZ: 12 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Pho Viet FAVORITE INGREDIENTS: Various chillies and homegrown herbs IDEAL MEAL: Bacon-wrapped turdurken and fresh steamed artichokes stuffed with jambalaya WOULDN’T EAT IF YOU PAID ME: Hot tapioca pudding INSIDER’S SECRET: The secret to any good meal is a good marinade.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING AT MY RESTAURANT: Kathy Bates impersonator CRAZIEST RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE: Quickly removing aerosol cans from fryer MAMA MIA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA 12220 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1122. Lunch specials. Veal, seafood, New York-style and Sicilian-style pizzas. $ L D Tue.-Sun. MAMBOS CUBAN CAFE & PIZZERIA 13770 Beach Blvd., Ste. 9, 374-2046. 2012 BOJ winner. Authentic ropa vieja, bistec, pollo, picadillo, lechon asada. $$ � R L D daily MARKER 32 14549 Beach Blvd., 223-1534. ICW view. American eclectic: fresh, local seafood, shrimp & Andouille fettuccini, broiled oysters, yellow fin tuna poke. $$$ � D Mon.-Sat. MILANO’S RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 21, 646-9119. Casual, family-owned. Homestyle Italian fare, New York-style pizzas, veal, baked dishes. $$ � L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 3238 Hodges Blvd., 821-5687. See Southside. $$ � L D Daily MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE 12777 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 5, 221-1090. F Wings, burgers in a sporty atmosphere. $ L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1A, Intracoastal, 821-9880. See St. Johns Town Center. Daily.

PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL CANTINA 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 1, 221-2300. F Casual, family-friendly place features daily specials. $$ � L D Daily SALSAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402. F Authentic, fresh Mexican fare made from scratch. Daily specials. $$$ � L D Daily SHANE’S RIB SHACK 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 992-0130.

Burgers, pork, ribs, chicken tenders, wings, beans, fried okra, corn, collards, Brunswick stew. $$ � L D Daily SIENA’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 26, 220-9192. Italian cuisine: lasagna, calzones, stuffed shells, pizza and wraps. $$ L D Daily TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, specialty wraps. $$ L D Tue.-Sun.; D Sun. & Mon. VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd., 647-6575.

See Julington. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily XTREME WINGS 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 108, 220-9464. F Family sports grill has wings, burgers, sandwiches and wraps. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily

JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS

BENITO’S ITALIAN CAFE & PIZZERIA 155 Hampton Pt. Dr., 230-8292. Family spot. Authentic Italian cuisine, veal, seafood entrÊes, pasta, specialty pizzas. $$ � L D Daily BLACKSTONE GRILLE 112 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 102, 287-0766. Modern American fusion cuisine, served in a bistro-style setting. $$$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 100 Bartram Oaks Walk, Fruit Cove, 287-7710. See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 540 S.R. 13, Ste. 10, Fruit Cove, 287-8317. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts in a family atmosphere. $ � L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CLARK’S FISH CAMP 12903 Hood Landing Rd., 268-3474.

F Gator, turtle, steak, ribs and daily all-you can-eat catfish dinners. Dine indoors, outdoors, or in a glass-enclosed room. $$ � L D Daily JENK’S PIZZA 2245 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 112, 826-1555. Familyowned-and-operated. Subs, New York-style pizzas, calzones, Italian dishes. $ � L D Daily THE NEW ORLEANS CAFÉ 12760 San Jose Blvd., Julington Creek, 880-5155. Creole-style cafe. French bread po’boys, muffalattas. On Julington Creek. $ � L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F See San Marco. $$ L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554.

F 50+ premium domestic, import beers on tap. Starters, burgers, sandwiches, entrees. $$ � L D Daily VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 605 S.R. 13, Ste. 103, 230-6966.

F Hand-tossed New York- and Sicilian-style pizzas.

Baked dishes, subs, stromboli, wings, wraps. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily WAKAME JAPANESE & THAI CUISINE 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 108, 230-6688. F Fine dining; authentic cuisine, full sushi menu, curries, pad dishes. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily ANATOLIA GRILL & BAR 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 329-1336. F The Turkish restaurant serves authentic Italian/Mediterranean cuisine, like flatbreads, calzones, pasta, shishkabobs, seafood, wraps, salads. Specialties: Musakka, falafel, lamb shank. $$ � L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199.

Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), favorites, Greek beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. AW SHUCKS 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368. F Seafood place has an oyster bar, steaks, seafood, wings, pasta. Favorites: ahi tuna, shrimp & grits, oysters Rockefeller, pitas, kabobs. $$ � L D Daily THE BLUE CRAB CRABHOUSE 3057 Julington Creek Rd., 260-2722. F Fresh Maryland-style steamed blue crabs, crab legs, steamed or fried oysters. Covered deck; daily specials. $$ � L D Tue.-Sat. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 12620 Bartram Park Blvd., 652-2989; 9820 San Jose Blvd., 268-2666. F See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20, 880-3313. F Authentic dishes: steaks, sausages, chicken, fish, burgers, hot sandwiches. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 2889211; 13820 St. Augustine Rd., Bartram Park, 880-0020.

F Brooklyn Special is a favorite; calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $ L D Daily DON JUAN’S RESTAURANT 12373 San Jose Blvd., 268-8722.

F Friendly, family-oriented service, with a touch of Old Mexico. $ � L D Daily ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin Landing, 268-4458. Family-owned place offers casual fine dining, Italian cuisine, veal, seafood. Daily specials. $$$ � D Tue.-Sun. GIGI’S RESTAURANT 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300. In the Ramada; prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. and Sat., blue-jean brunch on Sun., daily breakfast buffet, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ B R L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040. F American steakhouse features a 9-ounce choice Angus center-cut filet with gorgonzola shiitake mushroom cream sauce, 8-ounce burgers, ribs, wraps, sandwiches. $$ � L D Mon.-Sat. KANKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE/SUSHI BAR 11154 San Jose Blvd., 292-2400. Teppanyaki and sushi tables, sushi bar, steaks and seafood. $$ D Nightly KOBE JAPANESE RESTAURANT 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 8, 288-7999. Fusion-style sushi place has oyster shooters, kobe beef shabu-shabu, Chilean sea bass. Sake. $$ L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175.

F See San Marco. BOJ winner. $$ � L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MAMA FU’S ASIAN HOUSE 11105 San Jose Blvd., 260-1727.

MSG-free pan-Asian cuisine made to order in woks using fresh ingredients. Authentic Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai dishes. $$ � L D Daily METRO DINER 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2012 BOJ winner. In a historic 1930s building, the upscale diner serves meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ R B L Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 11112 San Jose Blvd.,

Ste. 19, 292-0003. See Southside. $$ � L D Daily MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN 10503 San Jose Blvd., 2601349. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950. F 2012 BOJ winner. Fresh, organic ingredients in vegetarian, vegan, raw food and gluten-free options, gourmet artisan sandwiches, deli and hot bar dishes, chopped salad bar, gluten-free baked goods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. $ � L D Mon.-Sat. PICASSO’S PIZZERIA 10503 Blvd., 880-0811. F Handtossed gourmet pizza, calzones, New York-style cheesecake, pasta. Fresh local seafood, steaks. $$ � L D Daily RACK EM UP BILLIARDS 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., Ste. 205, 262-4030. This cigar and hookah lounge has a full kitchen, subs. 200+ imported, domestic beers. $ D Nightly THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773. F Casual, family-friendly eatery serves pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, pasta dishes. $$$ � L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 11111 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 292-2300. F See Beaches. $$ � L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 12485 San Jose Blvd., 288-7928. F See Riverside. $ � L D Daily TANK’S FAMILY BAR-B-Q 11701 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 23, 351-8265. F Owned and operated by the Tankersleys.

Made-from-scratch Southern-style fare. $$ � B L D Tue.-Sat. TIJUANA FLATS 13820 Old St. Augustine Rd., 262-0484. See Baymeadows. $ � L D Daily VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., 268-6660. F See Julington. $ � L D Daily WHOLE FOODS MARKET 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22, 288-1100. F Prepared-food department offers 80+ items; full-service and self-service hot bar, salad bar, soup bar, dessert bar; pizza, sushi and sandwich stations. $$ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 46, 262-3955. F See Orange Park. $ � L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG (Venues are in Orange Park unless otherwise noted.)

ARON’S PIZZA 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti and New York-style pizza. $$ � L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 1765 Town Center Blvd., Eagle Harbor, 269-8870. See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BUFFALO WILD WINGS GRILL BAR 1940 Wells Rd., 215-4969. F Buffalo-style wings, 14 sauces (mild to better-be-ready blazin’), wraps, burgers, ribs. $$ � L D Daily CAMICAKES 1910 Wells Rd., 541-1099. Gourmet cupcakes: sweet potato, red velvet, mint chocolate and The Elvis, banana, peanut butter, chocolate frosting. $$ Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. F See Beaches. $ � L D Daily GATORS DOCKSIDE 9680 Argyle Forest Blvd., 425-6466.

F Sports-themed family restaurant has grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily THE HILLTOP 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup.

Homemade desserts. $$$ D Tue.-Sat. HOOTERS 1749 Wells Rd., 215-5858. F Wings, steamed shrimp, oysters, burgers, seafood, sandwiches. $$ L D Daily HURRICANE GRILL WINGS 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 1, 644-7315. See Avondale. $ � L D Daily JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS 410 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 9, 272-0037.

Wraps, subs, sandwiches. $ � L D Daily JOEY MOZZARELLA’S 930 Blanding Blvd., Ste. D, 579-4748.

F Calzones, stromboli and lasagna are customer favorites; pizza pies available stuffed. BYOB. $$ � L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 9734 Crosshill Blvd., Argyle, 908-4250; 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776; 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370; 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827; 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553; 1404 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 1756 Wells Rd., Ste. A, 278-4600. See Southside. $$ � L D Daily NIRVANA CAFÉ 1910 Wells Rd., 278-5880. F Sandwiches, homemade-style paninis, European specialties and freshsqueezed juices. $$ B L D Daily PASTA MARKET & CLAM BAR 1930 Kingsley Ave., 276-9551. Family-owned-and-operated place has gourmet pizzas, veal, chicken, mussels, shrimp, grouper. Pastas: spaghetti, fettuccine, lasagna, ziti, calzone, linguini, ravioli. $$ � D Nightly POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116.

Family-owned-and-operated; pizzas made in coal-fired ovens.

Espresso, cappuccino. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 6001 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 16, 771-7677. F See Beaches. $$ � L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611. F Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas. 75+ import beers. $ L D Daily

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SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1976 Kingsley Ave., 272-4606.

F See Riverside. $ � L D Daily SWEET TOMATOES 1625 Wells Rd., 269-6116. Salad bar has four tossed salads, vegetables and deli items, pasta salads, dressings, soups, pizza and desserts. $ L D Daily TEXAS ROADHOUSE 550 Blanding Blvd., 213-1000. F Steaks, ribs, seafood and chops. Daily specials. $ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 950 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 1, 272-1419.

F Barbecue plates, barbecue salads and pulled pork sandwiches. All-you-can-eat specials. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA, NE ST. JOHNS

619 OCEAN VIEW 619 Ponte Vedra Blvd., 285-6198. Fresh seafood, steaks, nightly specials. $$$ � D Wed.-Sun. AL’S PIZZA 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily AQUA GRILL 950 Sawgrass Village Dr., 285-3017. Fresh local seafood, aged prime steaks, vegetarian entrÊes. Climatecontrolled lakefront patio seating. $$$ L D Daily THE AUGUSTINE GRILLE 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., 285-7777.

Bite Club certified. Steaks, New York strip, lamb, lobster Napoleon, Hawaiian tuna. $$$ đ?–˘ D Nightly BOGEY GRILLE 150 Valley Circle, Ponte Vedra, 285-5524.

Wings, quesadillas, chicken, burgers. $$ � L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 880 A1A, Ste. 8, 280-7677. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts. $ � L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CAFFE ANDIAMO 500 Sawgrass Village Dr., 280-2299. Fresh seafood, veal, steak and pizza made in a copper woodburning oven; daily specials. $$ L D Daily FOX’S PIZZA DEN 4360 Palm Valley Rd., 285-1292. F Familyowned-and-operated. The Wedgie sandwich on a pizza crust, and sandwiches, pizzas, stromboli. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. JJ’S LIBERTY BISTRO 330 A1A N., Ste. 209, 273-7980.

Authentic French cuisine. The scratch kitchen has fresh soups, stocks, sauces and pastries. $$ � L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE 301 N. Roscoe Blvd., Palm Valley, 285-0139. F On the ICW, get there by land or water.

Fresh seafood, hand-cut steaks, burgers. Screened waterfront porch. $$ � L D daily MULLIGAN’S PUB 43 PGA Tour Blvd., 285-1506. F At Hilton Garden Inn. Favorites and Irish dishes. $$ D Nightly NINETEEN AT TPC SAWGRASS 110 Championship Way, 273-3235. American, Continental fare, local seafood. $$$ L D Daily PALM VALLEY FISH CAMP 229 N. Roscoe Blvd., Palm Valley, 285-3200. F The Groshells serve dishes made with fresh ingredients; daily specials. $$$ � L D Tue.-Sun. PUSSERS BAR & GRILLE 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766.

Bite Club certified. Caribbean cuisine and regional favorites: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. $$ � L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE 818 A1A N., 543-3797. Chef David Medure creates dishes and small plates. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 814 A1A N., Ste. 103, 285-0014.

BOJ winner. Midwestern custom-aged U.S. prime beef, fresh seafood, live Maine lobster. Reservations,. $$$$ D Nightly SAUCY TACO 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226, St. Johns. F The new casual spot offers a variety of tacos, including fried chicken, Irish and All-American, plus all the usuals. Tortas, Mexican pizza, salads, 40 draft beers. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily SUN DOG BREWING CO. 822 A1A N., Ste. 105, 686-1852. F Lobster dip, turkey-bacon-n-brie sandwich, chargrilled meatloaf sandwich. $$-$$$ đ?–˘ R Sun.; L D Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515. Upscale, casual restaurant offers appetizers, entrĂŠes. $$$ L D Daily WOK N ROLL 3791 Palm Valley Rd., Ste. 203, 543-7666.

Authentic Chinese cuisine. $ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 226 Solana Rd., Ste. 1, 280-1110. F See Orange Park. $ � L D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE (Venues are in Riverside unless otherwise noted.)

13 GYPSIES 887 Stockton St., 389-0330. 2012 BOJ winner.

Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes: tapas, blackened octopus, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ L D Tue.-Sat. AL’S PIZZA 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, Five Points, 388-8384. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT 1534 Oak St., 355-3793.

American favorites with a Southern twist, locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ R Sat. & Sun.; L Daily; D Mon.-Sat. BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 869 Stockton Street, Stes.

1 & 2, 855-1181. F 2012 BOJ winner. Bold Bean features organic and fair trade coffees. $ B L Daily BONO’S BAR-B-Q 5229 Jammes Rd., 772-0050; 705 S. Lane Ave., 783-1404. F See San Marco.

CARMINE’S PIE HOUSE 2677 Forbes St., 387-1400. F Pizza by the slice, classic Italian dishes – calzone, stromboli, subs, panini. Craft beers, microbrews. $$ � B L D Daily COOL MOOSE CAFE & BISTRO 2708 Park St., 381-4242. F New England-style cafÊ. Full breakfast, classic sandwiches, wraps and soups. Gourmet coffee. $$ R L D Tue.-Sun. COZY TEA CAFE 1023 Park St., 5 Points, 329-3964. Afternoon

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tea: scones, soups, teas. Indian nights Fri., Sat. $ L Mon.-Sat. CRAZY EGG 954 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 524-8711.

Burgers, sandwiches, steaks, prime rib, pork chops, shrimp & grits, specials; of fresh, local, organic ingredients. $ B L D Wed.-Fri.; B L Sat.-Tue. DERBY ON PARK 1068 Park St., 379-3343. Michael Williams and Zack Nettles offer burgers, sandwiches, steaks, fish & chips, meatloaf. $$-$$$ L D Tue.-Sun., R Sat. & Sun. DICK’S WINGS 5972 San Juan Ave., Westside, 693-9258. See Beaches. $ � L D Daily DOMO CREPES ETC. 813 Lomax St., 619-2540. Cappuccino, crepes, soups and flatbreads. $$ B L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET Deli Supervisor Nicole Gurgiolo 2007 Park St., 384-4474. F The juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. Artisanal cheeses, craft and imported beers, organic wines, organic produce, meats, vitamins and herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches, and raw, vegan items. $ B L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 2753 Park St., 384-9999. F See Beaches. $ � L D Daily GATORS BBQ 8083 Baymar St., Westside, 683-4941. F Award-winning barbecue pork, chicken, ribs, turkey and sausage. $ � L D Mon.-Sat. GATORS DOCKSIDE 6677 103rd St., Westside, 777-6135.

F Sports-themed family place serves grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ � L D Daily HOVAN MEDITERRANEAN GOURMET 2005 Park St., Ste. 1, 381-9394. F Traditional Mediterranean fare: fresh hummus, baba ghannoush, gyros. Hookahs. $ L D Mon.-Sat. JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS 1615 Hendricks Ave., Riverside, 399-5006. See Orange Park. $ � L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Breakfast; grilled wraps, gyros, grilled chicken salad. $ B L Mon.-Sat. KICKBACKS GASTROPUB 910 King St., 388-9551. F 2012 BOJ winner. Breakfast, lunch & dinner 20 hours a day; more than 655 bottled beers, 84 on tap. $$ � B L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794; 7859 Normandy, 781-7600; 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500; 8102 Blanding, 779-1933; 6331 Roosevelt, Ste. 6, NAS Jax, 854-0057. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q 4838 Hwy. Ave., Westside, 389-5551. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, ribs.

Homestyle sides: green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese and collards. $$ � L Mon.-Sat.; D Thur. & Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 389-4442. F 2012 BOJ winner. Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, served by the pie or the slice. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434. F Southwestern dishes: fresh fish tacos and chicken enchiladas. $$ � L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300. F Traditional Irish fare in a casual pub: shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese and fish-n-chips. $$ � L D Daily PELE’S WOOD FIRE 2665 Park St., 232-8545. Chef Micah Windham uses a wood-fired oven to create traditional, authentic Italian fare with an inventive, modern twist. $$ � R L D Daily PERARD’S PIZZA & ITALIAN CUISINE 11043 Crystal Springs Rd., Ste. 2, Westside, 378-8131. Family-owned. Traditional fare, homemade sauces, lasagna, desserts. $ � L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #1 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 824 Lomax St., 301-1188. F Traditional Japanese cuisine, fresh sushi, sashimi, kiatsu, teriyaki and hibachi. $$ L D Daily THE SALTY FIG 901 King St., 337-0146. Gastropub’s New American Southern fare: shrimp & grits, bourbon fig glazed quail, made with locally sourced produce, meats, seafood. $$ L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1923 S. Lane Ave., 786-0081; 4434 Blanding Blvd., 777-0730. Beef, pork, chicken, ribs cooked in a wood-fired pit; Vidalia onion rings, corn nuggets, beans, slaw. AYCE specials daily. $ � L D Daily SOUP’S ON JACKSONVILLE 1526 King St., 387-9394. F See Beaches. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily SUMO SUSHI 2726 Park St., 388-8838. F Authentic Japanese dishes, entrees, sushi rolls, sashimi salad, gyoza (pork dumplings), and tobiko (flying fish roe). $$ � L D Daily SUSHI CAFE 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888. F Sushi rolls: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll; hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. $$ L D Daily SWEET THEORY BAKING CO. 1243 King St., 387-1001. Small batch, all-natural, organic, allergy-friendly items made with no egg, dairy, soy or peanuts. Gluten-free options. $ Tue.-Sat. TAPA THAT 820 Lomax St., Five Points, 376-9911. Locally, organically grown ingredients; duck confit spring rolls, Cuban rice & beans cake. $$ � L D Tue.-Sat. TASTI D-LITE 1024 Park St., 900-3040. A gazillion flavors, in cones, cups, shakes and smoothies. $ Daily TREECUP CAFE 829 Riverside Ave., Cummer Museum, 356-6857. Lunch items, locally roasted coffee, espresso drinks.$ L Tue.-Sun.

TRES LECHES 869 Stockton St., 551-4375. F Quiches, empanadas, arepas, bocadillos, sandwiches, soups and baked goods; chocolate marquesa, Caribbean lime pie and tres leches. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. TWO DOORS DOWN 436 Park St., 598-0032. F Hotcakes, omelets, burgers, sandwiches, chops, liver & onions, Southern fried chicken, desserts. $$ đ?–˘ B L Mon.-Fri.

ST. AUGUSTINE

95 CORDOVA 95 Cordova St., 810-6810. In Casa Monica Hotel.

The cuisine blends Moroccan, Asian, Mediterranean, Caribbean and European influences. $$$ R Sun.; B L D Daily A1A ALE WORKS 1 King St., 829-2977. F Two-story brew pub, Bridge of Lions view, has six kinds of beer and serves New World cuisine, inside or on the balcony. $$ L D Daily A1A BURRITO WORKS TACO SHOP 114 St. George St., 823-1229. Baja-style tacos, vegetarian bean burritos, fish tacos, hormone-free meats, homemade guacamole. $ L D Daily AL’S PIZZA 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F See Intracoastal. $ � L D Daily ANN O’MALLEY’S PUB 23 Orange St., 825-4040. F Soups, sandwiches. Porch dining. Irish beers on tap. $$ L D Daily AVILES RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-9727. Hilton Bayfront Hotel. Progressive global cuisine. $$$ � B L D Daily BACK 40 URBAN CAFÉ 40 S. Dixie Hwy., 824-0227. Fresh, local seafood, Caribbean-style wraps, upside-down chicken potpie, in an 1896 building. $ � L Sun.; L D Mon.-Sat. BARLEY REPUBLIC IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE 48 Spanish St., 547-2023. Historic downtown pub has burgers, sandwiches, shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash. $$ � L D Daily BARNACLE BILL’S 14 Castillo Dr., 824-3663. F Family spot has seafood, gator tail, steak, shrimp. $$ � D Nightly THE BLACK MOLLY BAR & GRILL 504 Geoffrey St., 547-2723.

Fresh, local seafood, steaks, pasta. $$ � L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 2420 U.S. 1 S., 794-9424. See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BORRILLO’S PIZZA & SUBS 88 San Marco Ave., 829-1133.

F John Zappa’s New York-style spot serves subs, pasta dishes, and pizzas by the pie or slice. $ � L D daily CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA 146 King St., 494-6658. F 2012 BOJ winner. New York-style brick-ovenbaked pizza, fresh baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli, garlic herb wings. $$ L D Daily CASA MAYA 17 Hypolita St., 217-3039. Mayan fare, vegetarian and meat. Juice bar, daily specials. $$ B L D Wed.-Sun. CELLAR 6 ART GALLERY & WINE BAR 6 Aviles St., 827-9055.

Bite Club certified. Wolfgang Puck coffees, handmade desserts, light fare. $$ Daily CONCH HOUSE 57 Comares Ave., 829-8646. Signature dishes: Cracker combo platter, fried shrimp. Tiki huts over Salt Run Creek. $$$ � D Nightly CREEKSIDE DINERY 160 Nix Boatyard Rd., 829-6113. Beef, chicken, seafood, low-country cooking. Outdoor deck, fire pit. $$ � D Nightly CRUISERS GRILL 3 St. George St., 824-6993. F 2012 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ � L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. See Beaches. $ � L D Daily DOS COFFEE & WINE 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421. F Handcrafted pourovers, Convive Roastery beans. A variety of pressed sandwiches, build-your-own cheese boards. $$ B L Daily FLAVORS EATERY 125-C King St., 824-4221. Quesadillas, pizza, smoothies. Indoor/outdoor dining. $ L D Mon.-Sat. FLORIDA CRACKER CAFÉ 81 St. George St., 829-0397.

Scallops, shrimp, gator tail. $$ � L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN 39 Cordova St., 829-0655. Southern fare, with fresh ingredients from area farms: fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. Vegetarian options. $$$ � L D Daily GAS FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT 9 Anastasia Blvd., Ste. C, 217-0326. F Fresh, local and homemade casual fare: meatloaf, veggie, traditional burgers, seafood, steaks, daily specials, desserts. $$ � L D Tue.-Sat. GYPSY CAB COMPANY 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244. F 2012 BOJ winner. Local favorite spot. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken; also seafood, tofu, duck and veal dishes. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765. F New Orleans-style fresh seafood, steaks, jambalaya, etouffÊe, shrimp. $$ � L D Daily HOT SHOT BAKERY & CAFE 8 Granada St., 824-7898. F Freshly baked items, coffees, sandwiches, Datil B. Good hot sauces and pepper products. $ B L Daily THE KING’S HEAD BRITISH PUB 6460 U.S. 1 N., 823-9787.

F Ann Dyke serves British draught beers and ciders in 20-ounce Imperial pints, plus Cornish pasties, fish & chips. $$ � L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 155 Hampton Point Dr., 230-7879. See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � L D Daily THE MANATEE CAFÉ 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 106, 826-0210. F Organic, vegetarian meals. Chef Cheryl Crosley has omelets, tofu Reubens, miso, hummus, tabouli. $ B L Mon.-Sat. MEEHAN’S IRISH PUB SEAFOOD HOUSE 20 Avenida Menendez, 810-1923. F Burgers, seafood, raw bar, steak O’Shay’s, Dubliner chicken, Irish Benedict. $$$ � Daily

THE MILLTOP TAVERN 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329. F Homemade soups, sandwiches, daily specials. Dine under trees on two-story porch. $ L D Daily MOJO OLD CITY BBQ 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � B L D Daily MOJO’S TACOS 551 Anastasia Blvd., Anastasia Island, 829-1665. F Family-owned spot offers double-decker-style tacos, burritos. $ L D Daily NALU’S TROPICAL TAKE-OUT 926 Santa Maria Blvd., 794-0405; 1020 Anastasia Blvd., 501-9592. F Fresh island-style beef, chicken, fish, vegetarian tacos, burritos. $ L D Daily NED’S SOUTHSIDE KITCHEN 2450 U.S. 1 S., 794-2088. F Casual islandy spot has Mediterranean dishes, tacos, shrimp & grits, vegetarian options. Drive-thru. $ L D Mon.-Sat. OUTBACK CRABSHACK 8155 C.R. 13 N., 522-0500. Crabs, shrimp, gator tail, conch fritters, steaks. $$ L D Daily PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818. F 2012 BOJ winner. Chef Mas Liu creates authentic sushi: Crazy Girl (shrimp tempura, asparagus, salmon); Mango Tango (salmon, crab, tuna, flying fish egg, mango sauce). Sake, sashimi. $$-$$$ L D Daily PIZZALLEY’S 117 St. George St., 825-2627. F 2012 BOJ winner. Wings, pizza. $$ L D Daily PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100.

Homemade Italian ristorante fare. $$ L D Daily THE PRESENT MOMENT CAFÉ 224 W. King St., 827-4499. F 2012 BOJ winner. Organic, vegan, vegetarian dishes, pizza, pastas, hummus, milkshakes; made without meat, dairy, wheat or an oven. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. RAINTREE RESTAURANT 102 San Marco Ave., 824-7211.

Steak and seafood. Reservations accepted. $$ D Nightly RHETT’S PIANO BAR & BRASSERIE 166 Hypolita St., 825-0502. Freshly made-to-order items include American espresso-rubbed filet, pistachio-crusted lamb chops. A petite menu is also offered. $$$$ D Tue.-Sun. SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1720 U.S. 1 S., 824-3220; 2720 S.R. 16, 824-3315. See Riverside. $ � L D Daily THE TASTING ROOM, WINE & TAPAS 25 Cuna St., 810-2400.

Upscale contemporary Spanish place pairs tapas with wines. $$$ Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 135 Jenkins St., Ste. 106, 819-8880. See Orange Park. $ � L D Daily YOGURT MOTION 163 Palencia Village, Ste. 102, 610-2220.

Non-dairy frozen yogurt (with no table sugar, lactose, chemicals or preservatives) in a variety of flavors. $ Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH

(Venues are in St. Augustine Beach unless otherwise noted.)

A1A BURRITO WORKS TACO SHOP 671 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-7451. F See St. Augustine. $ L D Daily AMICI 1915B A1A S., 461-0102. F Family-owned-andoperated. Pasta, veal, steak, seafood. $$ � L D Daily CAFE ATLANTICO 647 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-7332. Traditional, new dishes. Chef Paolo offers risotto alla pescatora: shrimp, scallops, shellfish in a cheese basket. $$$ D Nightly CAP’S ON THE WATER 4325 Myrtle St., Vilano Beach, 824-8794. F Coastal cuisine: fresh local shrimp, raw oyster bar. Boat access. $$ � L D Daily FA CAFÉ 303 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-2006. F Daily specials: jerk fish and mango wrap. $ � L D Tue.-Sun. THE GROOVE CAFE 134 Sea Grove Main St., 547-2740.

Steaks, fresh local seafood. $ đ?–˘ L D Tue.-Sun. HURRICANE GRILL WINGS 4225 S. A1A, Ste. 13, 471-7120.

See Avondale. $ � L D Daily JACK’S BBQ 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100. Old-fashioned pit barbecue. Tiki bar, deck. $ � L D Daily MANGO MANGOS 700 A1A Beach Blvd., 461-1077. Caribbean kitchen has comfort food with a tropical twist: coconut shrimp, fried plantains. Outdoor seating. $$ � L D Daily THE ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311. F Coffee drinks, vegetarian meals, Southern comfort dishes. $ B L D Daily PURPLE OLIVE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO 4255 A1A S., Ste. 6, 461-1250. F Family-owned-and-operated. Local seafood, prime beef, lamb, vegetarian. Artisan breads. $$ D Tue.-Sat. THE REEF 4100 Coastal Hwy., Vilano Beach, 824-8008. F Casual oceanfront place has fresh local seafood, steak, pasta dishes and chef specials. $$$ � R Sun.; L D Daily SOUTH BEACH GRILL 45 Cubbedge Rd., Crescent Beach, 471-8700. Two-story beachy spot has casual oceanfront dining and fresh local seafood. $ B L D Daily STEPHEN’S SOUL FOOD 101 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-7000. Slow food made with fresh, local ingredients: fried perch with grits and fresh tomato. $ B L Tue.-Sat. SUNSET GRILLE 421 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-5555. Key West-style place serves fresh local seafood, steaks and sandwiches. Open-air counters. $$$ � L D Daily

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BAHAMA BREEZE 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031.

Caribbean-inspired: lobster quesadillas, beef patties, Creole baked goat cheese, tropical drinks. $$$ đ?–˘ L D Daily BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466. Classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta and flatbread sandwiches. $$$ đ?–˘ R L D Daily

Dining CANTINA LAREDO 10282 Bistro Dr., 997-6110. Authentic Mexican dishes, daily fish specials, grilled chicken and steaks. $$ � R L D Daily THE CAPITAL GRILLE 5197 Big Island Dr., 997-9233. Dryaged, hand-carved steaks, fresh seafood, with local, seasonal ingredients. 350 wines. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly LIBRETTO’S PIZZERIA & ITALIAN KITCHEN 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 402-8888. F Authentic NYC pizzeria has Big Apple crust, cheese and sauce; classics, calzone, desserts. $$ L D Daily MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY 10367 Midtown Pkwy., 380-4360. Italian-American fare, pasta, steaks, seafood, chef’s specials, desserts made in a scratch kitchen. $$$ � L D Daily MIMI’S CAFE 10209 River Coast Dr., 620-0660. Signature quiches, salads, sandwiches, chicken pot pie, beef bourguignon and roasted turkey breast are served in a French cottage-themed spot. $ � B L D Daily MITCHELL’S FISH MARKET 5205 Big Island Dr., 645-3474.

The changing menu has 180+ fresh items: cedar-roasted Atlantic salmon, kung pao calamari and seared rare salt-andpepper tuna. $$$ đ?–˘ L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT 4860 Big Island Dr., 807-9292.

Non-fat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free frozen yogurts, including tart and non-tart flavors; 40-plus toppings. Daily.

P.F. CHANG’S 10281 Midtown Pkwy., Ste. 137, 641-3392. 2012 BOJ winner. Traditional chicken, duck, pork, beef, lamb dishes, vegetarian plates, gluten-free items. $$ � L D Daily THE PITA PIT 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 5, 579-4930. See Beaches. $ B L D Daily QDOBA MEXICAN GRILL 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 149, 807-9161. F Fresh, custom-made, DIY meals. Choose an entrÊe – tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos – then toppings – vegetarian beans, meats, veggies, salsas, guacamole, sauces and cheeses. $ � L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 125, 565-1299. F See Beaches. $$ � L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #3 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 10281 Midtown Pkwy., Ste. 119, 996-2288. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SEASONS 52 5096 Big Island Dr., 645-5252. Grill and wine bar has a seasonally changing menu. $$ � L D Daily SEASONS OF JAPAN 4413 Town Center Pkwy., 329-1067.

Japanese and hibachi-style fare, sushi. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily WASABI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 10206 River Coast Dr., 997-6528. Authentic Japanese cuisine, teppanyaki shows, sushi. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily WHISKY RIVER 4850 Big Island Dr., Ste. 3, 645-5571.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Southern hospitality fare features burgers, hot wings, pizzas and pulled pork. Drink specials. $ đ?–˘ L D Daily

SAN JOSE, LAKEWOOD, UNIVERSITY WEST

CRUISERS GRILL 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. F See Beaches. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110.

F See Beaches. $ � L D Daily EMPEROR’S GENTLEMEN’S CLUB Chef Jonathan Reap 4923 University Blvd. W., 739-6966.

The upscale steakhouse features steaks, burgers, seafood and wings. $$ L D Daily FUSION SUSHI 1550 University Blvd.

W., 636-8688. F Brand-new upscale sushi spot serves a wide variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki and kisatsu. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 2025 Emerson St., 346-3770.

Family-owned place serves down-home barbecue, smoky chicken, crinkle-cut French fries. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ � B L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 5097 University Blvd. W., 737-4906. See Riverside. $ � L D Daily STEAMIN’ 9703 San Jose Blvd., 493-2020. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, more than 50 craft beers. $ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK, ST. NICHOLAS

BASIL THAI & SUSHI 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190.

F 2012 BOJ winner. Sushi, Thai cuisine, ginger-infused salad, Pad Thai, curry dishes, ebi roll, sashimi, daily specials. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. bb’s 1019 Hendricks Ave., 306-0100. F Changing selection of fine cheeses, espresso martinis. $$$ R L D Mon.-Sat. BEACH ROAD CHICKEN DINNERS 4132 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 398-7980. Since 1939. Fried chicken, okra, sweet corn nuggets, country-fried steak, gizzards and livers, peas, slaw, biscuits, cobbler, fish, shrimp. $ � L D Tue.-Sun. BISTRO AIX 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949. F Frenchand Mediterranean-inspired fare in an urban-chic atmosphere.

The menu changes seasonally. $$$ L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 4907 Beach Blvd., 398-4248. F Slow-cooked meats, sauces, for 60+ years. Baby back ribs, barbecue salad and chicken breast sandwiches. $ � L D Daily CHART HOUSE 1501 River Place Blvd., Southbank, 398-3353.

Fresh fish, seafood and prime rib. $$$$ D Nightly CHECKER BBQ & SEAFOOD 3566 St. Augustine Rd., 398-9206. F Chef Art Jennette serves barbecue, seafood, comfort food: Trailer Trash Special is a pulled-pork sandwich, 15 fried shrimp, fries and fried green tomatoes. $ đ?–˘ L D Mon.-Sat. CURRENTS RIVERVIEW BISTRO 841 Prudential Dr., 306-9512.

Breakfast, sandwiches, pizza, soups, quesadillas, burgers, cheesesteaks, daily hot entrÊe specials. $ B L Mon.-Fri. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500.

F See Beaches. $ � L D Daily FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 737-7477. Diner fare: pancakes, sandwiches, burgers. $ � B L Daily THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. 2012 BOJ winner. Tapas, cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ Tue.-Sun. HAVANA-JAX CAFE/CUBA LIBRE BAR 2578 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 399-0609. F Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches in a clean, bright cafÊ. Black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, roast pork. $ � L D Daily HIGHTIDE BURRITO COMPANY 1538 Hendricks Ave., 683-7396. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Salsas, marinades, tortillas, beef, pork, fish, burritos, tacos, tortas. $ � L D Daily LA NOPALERA 1631 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F 2012 BOJ winner. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. $$ � L D Daily MAPLE STREET BISCUIT COMPANY 2004 San Marco Blvd., 398-1004. Pulled pork, fried chicken, bacon; goat cheese, dill pickles, pepper jelly, collards, fried eggs, on a fresh biscuit, sauces, gravies, dressings. $ B L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. MATTHEW’S 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship restaurant offers fine dining in a refined, European-style atmosphere. Artfully presented cuisine, small plates. Reservations recommended. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701. F 2012 BOJ winner. Upscale diner serves meatloaf, chicken pot pie and homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily THE MUDVILLE GRILLE 3105 Beach Blvd., St. Nicholas Plaza, 398-4326. Family sports place; steaks, wings. $ L D Daily THE OLIVE TREE MEDITERRANEAN GRILL 1705 Hendricks Ave., 396-2250. F Homestyle plates, hummus, tabouleh, grape leaves, gyros, Greek salad. $$ L D Mon.-Fri. PIZZA PALACE GM Hala Demetree 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815.

F The family-owned restaurant serves homestyle cuisine: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining. $$ L D Daily PULP 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222. The juice bar has fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, smoothies with flavored soy milks, organic frozen yogurts, granola. $ B L D Daily RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 1201 Riverplace Blvd., Crowne Plaza, Southbank, 396-6200. 2012 BOJ winner. Midwestern custom-aged U.S. prime beef, fresh seafood and live Maine lobster. Reservations suggested. $$$$ D Nightly SAKE HOUSE #2 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 1478 Riverplace Blvd., Ste. 101, 306-2188. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SAN MARCO DELI 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. F 2012 BOJ winner. Independently owned and operated. Grilled fish, turkey burgers, vegetarian options. $ B L Mon.-Sat. THE SOUTHERN GRILL 800 Flagler Ave., Southbank, 858-9800. Veggie platters, sandwiches, melts, wraps, omelets, egg combos and pancakes. $$$ B L Mon.-Sat. TAVERNA 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005. European cuisine influenced by the flavors of Italy and Spain. Tapas, small-plate items, Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas, home-style pastas, entrÊes. $$$ D Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Sun. VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 1430 San Marco Blvd., 683-2444. F See Julington. $ � Daily

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360 GRILLE 10570 Philips Hwy., 365-5555. Inside Latitude 30, the Grille serves familiar favorites, including seafood, steaks, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pasta, soups and pizza. Dine inside or on the patio. L D Daily. $$ BAYARD CAFE 12525 Philips Hwy., Ste. 201, 551-3026.

Casual, family-owned spot has breakfast all day, soups, daily specials, desserts, lattes, espressos. $ � B L Daily BISTRO 41° 3563 Philips Hwy., Ste. 104, 446-9738. F Breakfast and lunch, daily specials, burgers, salads, paninis, gyros, fresh homemade soups, served in a relaxing spot. $ B L Mon.-Fri. BLUE BAMBOO RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 3820 Southside

Blvd., 646-1478. Southern specialties, Asian comfort food by owner/chef Dennis Chan. Red curry shrimp & grits, Singapore street noodles. Saketinis. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 10065 Skinner Lake Dr., 998-1997; 10645 Philips Hwy., 886-2801; 5711 Bowden Rd., 448-5395.

F See San Marco. $ � L D Daily BUCA DI BEPPO 10334 Southside Blvd., 363-9090. Fresh Italian fare in three generous sizes served family-style in an old-Italy setting. $$$ � L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F See Beaches. $ � L D Daily FARAH’S PITA STOP CAFE 3980 Southside Blvd., Ste. 201, 928-4322. Middle Eastern cuisine: sandwiches, soups, entrÊes, desserts, pastries and mazas (appetizers). $ � B L D Mon.-Sat. THE FLAME BROILER 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 103, 619-2786; 7159 Philips Hwy., 337-0007. F Healthy, inexpensive fast food with no transfats, MSG, frying, or skin on meat. Fresh veggies, beef, chicken, short ribs. $ � L D Mon.-Sat. GREEK ISLES CAFE 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 116, 564-2290.

Authentic cuisine, breads, desserts, Italian dishes, seafood. $ đ?–˘ B L D Mon.-Sat. III FORKS PRIME STEAKHOUSE 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 111, 928-9277. Classic steakhouse, with a savvy menu of USDA prime beef, seafood, local favorites. $$$$ đ?–˘ D Mon.-Sat. JOEY BROOKLYN FAMOUS PIZZERIA 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 107, 683-8737. Fresh dough , cheeses, meatsc toppings.

Wings, Italian dishes. $$ B L D Daily JOHNNY ANGEL’S 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120, 997-9850. F ’50s-style dÊcor. Blueberry Hill pancakes, Fats Domino omelet, Elvis special combo platter, burgers and hand-dipped shakes. $ � B L D Daily LIME LEAF 9822 Tapestry Park Cir., Stes. 108 & 109, 645-8568. F Thai cuisine: fresh papaya salad, pad Thai, seared ahi tuna, crispy duck, mango sweet rice. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly MANGIA ITALIAN BISTRO & BAR 3210 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 551-3061. F Chef/owner Tonino DiBella offers authentic fine Italian dining: seafood, chicken, veal, steaks, pasta, New York-style pizza, desserts. $$$ � L D Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. $ � L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 9711 Deer Lake Court, 565-2882. Generous portions, friendly service in a nautical atmosphere. Customer favorites: fresh fish, specialty pastas, oysters, clams. 32 draft beers. $$ � L D Daily MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900. F Smoked meats: wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homestyle sides: green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ � L D Daily NEWK’S EXPRESS CAFE 9047 Southside Blvd., Ste. 1, 527-2402. F Sandwiches, salads, homemade dressings, California-style pizzas, desserts. $ � L D Daily OTAKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE 7860 Gate Pkwy., Stes.

119-122, 854-0485. F Sushi bar, hibachi grill tables and an open kitchen. $$$ đ?–˘ L D Daily SAKE SUSHI 8206 Philips Hwy., 647-6000. F Sushi, hibachi, teriyaki, tempura, katsu, donburi, noodle soups. Popular rolls: Fuji Yama, Ocean Blue and Fat Boy. $$ đ?–˘ L D Mon.-Sat. SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas and awardwinning ales and lagers. $$ L D Daily TASTE FOOD STUDIO 9726 Touchton Rd., 415-2992. High-end, high quality, scratch-made upscale dishes with a new twist on global cuisine, American favorites. $$$ đ?–˘ L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426. Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. Char-broiled meats, seafood and traditional Greek specialties, desserts. $$ đ?–˘ L D Daily

TILTED KILT PUB EATERY 9720 Deer Lake Court, 379-8612. Pub fare, wings, salmon and shepherd’s pie. $$ L D Daily TOMBO’S BACKPORCH BARBECUE 8929 Philips Hwy., 363-0990. F Southern comfort items, barbecue salad, full breakfast menu. $ B L Mon.-Sat. TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999. F New York-style, brick-oven-cooked gluten-free pizzas, calzones, sandwiches made to order, with Thumanns no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses. $ L D Mon.-Sat. TOSSGREEN 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 12, 619-4356.

F Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls of fresh fruits, vegetables, 100% natural chicken breast, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, nuts, cheeses, dressings, sauces, salsas. Frozen yogurt. $$ � L D Daily WATAMI ASIAN FUSION 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 363-9888. F Buffet: all-you can-eat sushi, 2 teppanyaki items. Jaguar, dynamite, lobster and soft-shell crab rolls. $ � L D Daily WHICH WICH? 4352 Southside Blvd., Ste. 4, 527-1999. 51 sandwiches, vegetarian, Weight-Watchers, buffalo chicken, grinder, gyro and black bean patty. $ � B R L Daily WILD WING CAFÉ 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464. F 33 wings, sandwiches, wraps, ribs, burgers. $$ L D Daily YUMMY SUSHI 4372 Southside Blvd., 998-8806. F Teriyaki, tempura, hibachi-style dinners, sushi, sashimi, 30+ specialty rolls. Lunch roll specials Mon.-Fri. Sake. $ L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTSBAR 13070 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace, 751-7499. F Bite Club certified. Pizzas, pasta, wings, burgers and steak. $$ � L D Daily CASA MARIA 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F 2012 BOJ winner. Family-owned-and-operated. Authentic Mexican fare: fajitas, seafood dishes, hot sauces. $ � L D Daily JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 5945 New Kings Rd., 765-8515. For 56+ years, family-owned Jenkins has served barbecue. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT 7316 N. Main St., 765-0335. F Family-owned-and-operated for 57 years. Pasta, gourmet pizzas and veal entrÊes. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ � B L D Daily MILLHOUSE STEAKHOUSE 1341 Airport Rd., 741-8722.

F Locally-owned-and-operated. Choice steaks from the signature broiler, seafood, pasta dishes and Millhouse gorgonzola, homemade desserts. $$ � D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 117, 714-9210. F See Beaches. $$ � L D Daily SALSARITA’S FRESH CANTINA 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 131, River City Marketplace, 696-4001. F Southwest fare made from scratch daily. $ � L D Daily SANDOLLAR RESTAURANT 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449.

On the St. Johns. Seafood, steaks, chicken and pasta. Deck.

Seafood buffet every Wed. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, with a twist of Mediterranean and French inspiration, crab cakes, New York strip, she crab soup and mahi mahi. At Crowne Plaza Airport. $$$ đ?–˘ B L D Daily STICKY FINGERS 13150 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace, 309-7427. F Memphis-style rib house, ribs, barbecue and rotisserie-smoked chicken. $$ L D Daily THREE LAYERS CAFE 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791. F Desserts, pastries, light lunches, bistro salads. $ B L D Daily UPTOWN MARKET 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734. F Bite Club certified. Innovative farm-to-fork breakfast and lunch dishes, fresh specials. Mimosa brunch Sat. & Sun. $$ B L Daily, D Thur.-Sat.

WINE TASTINGS ANJO LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Thur. 9928 Old Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-2656 BLACK HORSE WINERY 3-7 p.m. Mon.-Thur., 2-10 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 2-6 p.m. Sun. 420 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park, 644-8480 BLUE BAMBOO 5:30 p.m. every first Thur. 3820 Southside Blvd., 646-1478 THE GIFTED CORK Daily. 64 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 810-1083 THE GROTTO 6 p.m. every Thur. 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726 MONKEY’S UNCLE LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Fri. 1850 S. Third St., Jax Beach, 246-1070 OCEAN 60 6 p.m. every Mon. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 RIVERSIDE LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Fri. 1035 Park St., Five Points, 356-4517 ROYAL PALM VILLAGE WINES & TAPAS 5 p.m. every Mon., Wed. & Fri. 296 Royal Palms Drive, Atlantic Beach, 372-0052 THE TASTING ROOM 6 p.m. every first Tue. 25 Cuna St., St. Augustine, 810-2400

TASTE OF WINE Daily. 363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 9, Atlantic Beach, 246-5080 TIM’S WINE MARKET 5-7 p.m. every Fri., noon-5 every Sat. 278 Solana Rd., Ponte Vedra, 686-1741 128 Seagrove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 461-0060 III FORKS PRIME STEAKHOUSE 5-7 p.m. every Winedown Wed. 9822 Tapestry Circle, Ste. 111, SJTC, 928-9277 TOTAL WINE & MORE Noon-6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. 4413 Town Center Pkwy., Ste. 300, 998-1740 WINE WAREHOUSE 4 p.m. every Fri. 665 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-6450 4434 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 448-6782 W90+ 5 p.m. every Fri. 1112 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 413-0027 9210 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 4, Mandarin, 503-2348 3548 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 413-0025

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68 955 (when 58 Across was born, coincidentally) 70 Snipes and others 71 Deceive, in a way

82 Fictional Roger or Peter 85 Historic Colorado mining town 88 ___ daze 89 Snakes that don’t multiply?

90 Marsh plant 91 Docile 92 Kristen Johnston’s role on “3rd Rock from the Sun” 95 Video game giant 97 Firetruck tool 98 Actress Sevigny 99 Palindromic girl’s name 100 Angkor ___ 102 Ointment of old 104 “___, the point emerges” (from “Kill Bill, Vol. 2”) 106 It might include all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies 112 Ward of “House” 114 Volcanic ___ 117 “Go ahead, ___ anything” 118 Brand of wafers 119 Chophouse order 122 Expert of a sort 125 Orwell’s conclusion?

126 Get wider 127 “Come on down!” announcer Johnny 128 Carrie in space 129 Deli or tavern option 130 One of golf’s four majors 131 Essentials 132 Room with a remote

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Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on a printed page. He used it to say things to advance his practical ambitions. When he first met the woman who’d eventually be his wife, he said, “Why don’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.” Summon that kind of persuasive power in the days ahead. According to my omen-analysis, you should have it in abundance. The mojo’s best use?

Well, what would you like to really sell? What new resources do you want to bring into your sphere? Who do you want to convince?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In “The Book of the Damned,” Charles Fort revealed one of the secrets of power. He wrote that if you want power over something, be more real than it. What does that mean? How do you get real in the first place, and how do you get even more real? Purge your hypocrisies and tell as few lies as possible. Find out what your deepest self is like – not just what your ego’s like – and be your deepest self with vigorous rigor. Be sure the face you show the world is an accurate representation of your inner world. If you do all that good stuff, you’ll be as real and powerful as you need to be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Long after artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions, but when he was alive, he never got rich doing what he loved. He was frustrated about the gap between ambition and reward. “I do at least three paintings a day in my head,” he said. “What’s the use of spoiling canvas when nobody will buy anything?” Don’t make a comparable conclusion. It’s crucial you not keep good ideas bottled up; translate them into practical actions, even if there’s no immediate or obvious benefit. It’s important to express yourself concretely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1967, dissidents dreamed up a novel way to protest America’s horrific Vietnam War. They marched to the Pentagon, the military’s headquarters, and performed an exorcism to purge the place of its evil.

With the power of songs and chants, they invoked magic spells to levitate the 6.5-million-square-foot building.

Their plan didn’t quite work in a literal way – the Pentagon stayed firmly on the ground – but the legend they spawned was potent. When I heard about it years later, it inspired me to be an activist. Myth-making is your worthy goal. Dream up an epic task or project to fuel the imagination for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1926, surrealist artist Max Ernst painted “The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in Front of Three Witnesses.” It shows Mary spanking her son as he lies on her lap. Nowadays, the image isn’t nearly as scandalous as it was at first. Even some Christians I know find it amusing, portraying Jesus as a real human being with lessons to learn. What’s your equivalent of creating a cheeky image like this? How to achieve cathartic release being irreverent to something or someone you respect?

(See the image: tinyurl.com/SpankingJesus.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s prime time to promote cross-cultural liaisons and interspecies relationships. Experiment with hybrids and facilitate the union of diverse interests. You work in alignment with cosmic trends if you strengthen the connections of influences that belong together, and even between influences that don’t know they do. See what you can do to facilitate conversations between Us and Them. Negotiate peace treaties between Yes and No. Find legitimate ways to compare apples and oranges.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Gonzo columnist Mark Morford wrote a list of liberated behaviors he wants to cultivate. You’re in the emancipatory phase of your yearly cycle, so try some of his strategies. 1. Have a gentler grip. Let go of tightassed attitudes. 2. Make deeper penetration. Don’t be satisfied with surfaces. 3. Raise the vibration. It’s a waste of precious life energy to mope around in a sour, shriveled frame of mind. 4. Appreciate appreciation.

Treat gratitude as an emotion of the same caliber as joy. 5. Cultivate ecstatic silliness. Take everything less seriously. 6. Drink the awe. Let astonishment to seep in. (More: tinyurl.com/morfordjoy.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From an astrological perspective, now’s a good time to go on a meditation retreat for a few days or make a pilgrimage to your ancestral homeland to generate just the right shifts in brain chemistry. Other recommended adventures: review the story of your life from first memory to now; write a brief letter to five people you’ve loved best, tell them why; spend a day outside of time, when you don’t see a clock or use electronic media all day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarius comedian Steven Wright says he took a class in speed waiting. “Now I can wait an hour in only 10 minutes,” he brags. You’ll have the same knack in the days ahead. Your patience is much more effective than usual. Results come faster and they’ll be more intense. The catch? You really have to be calm, composed and willing to wait a long time. It won’t work if you’re secretly antsy and only pretending to be imperturbable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let boundaries blur a bit. Don’t stick too rigidly to strict definitions. Play around with good old-fashioned fuzzy logic. Straight facts and precise details are important to keep in mind, but don’t cling so ferociously they stifle your imagination.

Give yourself enough slack to try open-ended experiments. You’ll be smart to allow some wobble in your theories and a tremble in your voice. Magic happens if there’s plenty of wiggle room.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather,” said French poet Paul Valery. How do you interpret that? In the book “The Science of SelfControl,” here’s how Howard Rachlin expands on Valery’s idea: “We need to be spontaneous, but only in the context of some framework that allows us to attain higher levels of spontaneity; a feather is a slave to the wind, while a bird uses the wind.” Take heed!

Creative flights go further and last longer if you have a solid foundation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today is Sigh-Day. And tomorrow and the next day, and the next and the next. During these five Sigh-Days, feel free to breathe big, deep sighs at a higher rate than usual. Let yourself fill with poignant thoughts about life’s paradoxical mysteries.

Give yourself permission to be overwhelmed with emotions midway between lamentation and reverent amazement. Try free-form moaning; it helps release a full backlog of tension and you’ll appreciate your fate’s crazy beauty. P.S. Don’t whine.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

The Mites Ate the Cheese

funded deluxe coverage, which will remain at $8.34 per month for individuals ($30 for families). Several days earlier, the House voted to reject several billion dollars in federal grants for extending health insurance coverage to about a million more poor people in the state’s Medicaid program. The House premiums are even lower than those of state senators and rank-and-file state employees, and lower than the premiums of Medicaid recipients who have the ability to pay.

The Food and Drug Administration proposed recently to limit the quantity of tiny “mites” that could occupy imported cheese, even though living, crawling mites are a feature desired by aficionados. (“Cheese is absolutely alive!” proclaimed microbiologist Rachel Dutton, who runs Harvard University’s “cheese laboratory.”)

In fact, cheese is home to various molds, bacteria and yeasts, which give it flavor, and sellers routinely use blowers to expel excessive critters, but the FDA now wants to limit them to six bugs per square inch. However, according to a May NPR report, lovers of some cheeses (especially the French Mimolette) object, asserting both an indifference to the sight of mites creeping around — and a fear of taste-loss (since the mites burrow into the hunk, aerating it and extending the flavor).

The Ypsilanti, Mich., City Council voted in May on a resolution that would’ve required the members always to vote either “yes” or “no” (to reduce the recent, annoying number of “abstain” votes). The resolution to ban abstaining failed: Three of the seven members abstained.

Great Falls’ Gas Problem

Strange, Sore Loser

Energy West, Great Falls, Mont., natural gas supplier, tried recently to raise awareness of leaks by distributing scratch-and-sniff cards to residents, demonstrating gas’s distinctive, rottenegg smell. In May, workers cast aside several cartons of leftover cards, which were hauled off and disposed of by crushing — which released the scent and produced a massive blanket of odor over downtown Great Falls, resulting in a flurry of panicked calls to firefighters about gas leaks.

Looking for Models in All the Wrong Places

In April, doctors told a Stockholm newspaper at least one of Sweden’s premier modeling agencies, looking for recruits, had been caught passing out business cards adjacent to the country’s largest eating-disorder clinic, forcing the clinic to change its rules on patients taking outside walks.

Thrift Store Thief Gets Grilled

Ruben Pavon was identified by surveillance video in Derry, N.H., in April snatching a grill from the front porch of a thrift store.

Pavon explained to police that the store’s name, “Finders Keepers,” indicated to him the objects were free for the taking, admitting he’d previously taken items from the porch.

Pipe Bomb Buyback

In May, Los Angeles police bought back 1,200 guns in one of the periodic U.S. buy-back programs, but they declined to accept the pipe bomb a man said he wanted to sell. “This is not a pipe bomb buyback,” said Chief Charlie Beck. “Pipe bombs are illegal …” The man was promptly arrested.

Meat Has Bad Memories

John Casey, 51, was caught by security staff at an Asda supermarket in Washington, England, last October after allegedly stealing a slab of beef.

He was convicted in May even after offering the compelling explanation that he’d concealed the beef under other purchases not to avoid paying for it, but because the sight of the raw meat gave him “flashbacks” to his dead grandmother, who’d died from a blood clot when Casey was a child.

The Best Health Care the House Can Buy In May, the Florida House of Representatives adjourned for the year without assessing themselves even a nominal increase in health insurance premiums for their own taxpayer-

Abstaining Annoyance

Keith Judd filed a lawsuit in Iowa in May, in essence to invalidate the 2012 election by having President Barack Obama officially declared a Kenyan and not an American. Judd filed the papers from a federal penitentiary in Texas, where he’s serving 17 years for threatening a woman he believed to be a “clone” of the singer Stevie Nicks, because Nicks (or the clone) had tried to sabotage his home improvement company. (Bonus fact: In West Virginia’s 2012 Democratic presidential primary, Judd, a writein candidate, defeated Obama in nine counties and lost the state by only 33,000 votes.)

They Picked the Wrong Car

Paul Gardener and Chad Leakey were arrested in Tempe, Ariz., in May, charged with a spree of car burglaries. According to police, the men were trying various cars’ doors, looking for unlocked ones, when they inadvertently opened the back door of an unmarked police car.

Apparently, the thieves hadn’t noticed (until too late) two uniformed officers were in the front seat. The two burglars also failed to notice cage wiring separating the front and back seats.

70-year-old Strong Man

Timothy Adams, 24, was charged with home invasion in May in Gardner, Mass., but only after resident Michael Salame slammed him into the floor. Salame, 70 years old, has had eight heart stents, and must wear special coverings on his arms at night because of nerve damage — yet Adams apparently went down easily. At one point, Adams offered Salame “thousands of dollars” to let him up before police arrived.

Dogs Gone Wild

Oscar, a Lawrence, Mass., K-9, accidentally fired a gun into an occupied home during a police chase in March. He’d pawed the trigger while digging into snow where a fleeing suspect had tossed his gun. (No one was injured.) In March, a dog left inside an otherwise unattended, engine-running car accidentally kicked it into gear and pinned an unidentified pedestrian, knocking him unconscious. He was taken to a York, Pa., hospital and revived. Gregory Lanier, 35, driving his dog in a truck in Sebring, Fla., in February, was shot in the leg, though not seriously hurt, when the dog stepped on a .380 caliber pistol.

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New England signs Tim Tebow, who one independent coach says has fixed his throw

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n a day when the biggest Jaguars news involved Maurice Jones-Drew copping out of answering questions about the “unfortunate incident” at the Conch House, there was far bigger football news for folks who call this area home.

The national media had counted Tim Tebow out. We here in Northeast Florida, who have watched him from his days as a wunderkind at Nease High School to his days as a dynamo with the Gators and onto his days as a pro with the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets, knew better. Or at least some of us did.

Some of us didn’t. Pete Prisco had been dissing Tebow on Twitter for weeks, for example. I had filed a column speculating that Tebow could run for Congress — because his NFL career was “over” and all.

That column will never see the light of day, even though it seems like a viable option once Tebow’s playing career is over. And — praise Bill Belichick — that isn’t happening.

Multiple reports say that Tebow will be with the Patriots and in camp by the time you read this column. For those of us who have made a mini-career out of documenting Tebowmania, it couldn’t happen at a better time.

To be sure, questions remain. The first of which, though not a pressing one necessarily: Who in Tebow’s inner circle was it that “privately admitted” to media sources that Tebow’s career was “done”? And will that person be in the inner circle going forward?

Other questions are more pressing — if you place any stake in the idea that Tebow will be a quarterback with the Patriots, under the tutelage of Tom Brady (an idea buttressed by the fact that the Pats cut backup quarterback Mike Kafka to make room for No. 15).

The question of Tebow’s ability as a quarterback is still an open one. In the weeks leading up to his signing, reports from the media gave much anecdotal evidence of Tebow’s failings as a quarterback — not just in the games, but even in practice, where he allegedly hit his coach in Denver, John Fox, with an errant pass.

He can’t throw, they say, something that was true even during his “good” year in Denver, unless you want to count that anomalous playoff win against the Pittsburgh Steelers, in which he torched that vaunted defense and took his Broncos — left for dead before he

became quarterback — into the second round, where they were summarily vanquished by Belichick’s Patriots.

That seems so long ago now.

With this signing by the Patriots, local fans who wanted him to be signed by the Jaguars (finally, a reason to buy a new jersey!) will once again see their hopes quashed. That’s not surprising, of course, to anyone who listened to General Manager David Caldwell earlier this offseason.

There are those who had wished he was drafted instead of Tyson Alualu — a reach pick that looks reachier with each passing year. And there were those who hoped against hope (and reportedly, the desire of the player himself) that Tebow would come to Jacksonville instead of going to the Jets. That didn’t come to pass, and we all know that 2012 did about as much for Tebow’s rep as it did for that of Paul Ryan and the Mayan calendar.

But that was then. This is now. And the question now is pretty cut and dry: What can Belichick get out of Tebow?

Reports are that Tebow has been working on his game all offseason. He reported to the Jets a couple of months back 12 pounds lighter than he had been the previous season. And his throwing motion? Fixed, according to Steve Clarkson, an “independent quarterback coach” who spoke to Newsday in April.

“The footwork is essentially what caused a lot of his looping motion,” Clarkson said. “A lot of what was happening with his throwing motion and why it was elongated was because of the way he placed his feet at the end of his drop. Right before he’d make his throw, his hips would stop at mid-motion, and the ball would come off in funny places. So that was one thing that we really honed in on, was trying to tie his feet up.”

Time will tell how accurate those assurances are. More experienced quarterbacks than Tebow (see Vick, Michael) have reverted back to old, bad habits when under pressure or far behind in games. But if Tebow actually wants to learn how to be a winning quarterback, he couldn’t have landed in a better situation.

Now, there’s only one thing left for local diehards to do: Pre-order that Tebow No. 15 jersey in red, white and blue.

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HOTTIE ON A MOTORCYCLE Me: brunette w/ tattoo sleeve in red sportscar. You: riding a motorcycle, white shirt, backwards cap, killer smile. We pulled into the gas station together, I went in for wine. We both drove away. You rode up and asked if I wanted to share the bottle. I said, “Maybe next time.” Let’s go for a ride and share some drinks. When: June 1, 2013. Where: Kangaroo @ Southside Blvd. #1245-0612 LIGHT IN THE SKY There are two stars: one bright and the other not so bright, and it’s as if they watch each other. I watch you and I know you watch me. I love it almost as much as I love you. We will have our chance. You are my air even if you are older.

When: Everyday. Where: Willowbranch Park. #1244-0612 CHAMBLIN BEAUTY I see you over there with an armful of books. You: Black leggings, black shirt, looking beautiful and intelligent. We made eye contact as you passed by; you smiled. If you remember me then maybe it was real. What do you like to read? Maybe I’ll like it, too. When: May 29. Where: Chamblin Book Mine @ Roosevelt. #1243-0605 SUNDAY MORNING BRUNCH You: Dark-haired, blue-eyed & beautiful during brunch. Me: Balding & awkward, but absolutely in awe of you. Would love to see you there again & try to hit it off. When: May 5.

Where: Corner Bistro. #1242-0529 HELPFUL RAM GIRL To the person in the knit dress – meet me where they were handing out flyers. I’d love to take a walk with you. You, me and my pup. When: March 7. Where: Riverside Arts Market. #1241-0529 YOUR SMILE WITH A SPARK You: A beautiful smile that matched your eyes. You came into my work and I couldn’t stop smiling because of your smile. You wore a flannel shirt; butterfly clip in your hair. I helped you out to your silver Nissan. Wish I’d gotten your name. You were good company in that short time. I hope to see you again. When: May 19. Where: Publix. #1240-0529 OMG… YOU KILLED IT ISU First in produce; you walked by, we exchanged glances.

Your attire said you were just out of church. ISU again in parking lot; we headed in the same direction. Your ride, a gray Acura TL, said you’re a boss in your own right. I’m still lusting, wishing you’d turned into development off Pulaski.

Praying I see you again. When: May 19. Where: Winn-Dixie @ Main & New Berlin. #1239-0529 FIREWORKS I saw you 18 years ago. Your smile and dimples curved my toes and captured my heart. Do you think we can go for another 18 years? Give me a call. I’ll be waiting. When: July 1994. Where: Famous Amos. #1235-0522 SHAPELY SHOPPER You: Beautiful brunette, amazing legs. Me: Black-bearded, enthralled. I said you looked familiar and asked how we knew each other. Instead of saying to get to know each other better, I tried to win you over with humor; but fell between Gallagher and Carrot Top, so exited the stage.

L’esprit d’escalier. Maybe we could make fun of my clumsy attempt over dinner? When: May 6. Where: Homegoods. #1234-0515 JELLO SHOTS & CHEESCAKE Me: Purple shirt, black shorts, long brown hair. You: Dirty blonde, headphone, work uniform. My friend and I looking at jello, you turned around and started talking to us about jello shots ... ran into you again by paper towels. You work at Cheesecake Factory. Never got your name :) too scared to ask you to my party. Coffee sometime? When: May 8.

Where: Publix Town Center. #1235-0515 TALL BLONDE PIXIE You: Tall, soprano, blonde pixie hair, turquoise dress, a beautiful smile and sexy hazel eyes. Me: Hunky suitwearing oboist looking for a duet partner and a date to

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prom. We could make music all night ;) So how about it... will you be my prom date? When: May 18. Where: EverBank Field. #1236-0515 GORGEOUS BUSINESSMAN IN PINK You: Grey dress pants, pink/white buttondown shirt, not too tall, brown hair. Me: Blue work scrubs, glasses, wavy hair, brace on my left hand. You smiled at me. I couldn’t help stare as you talked on your phone. I joked with my friend about giving you my number, but didn’t have the guts. See you again soon? When: May 10. Where: Arby’s, Southside Blvd. #1237-0515 I WAVED, YOU WAVED You were driving a red car and smiled. I was driving a silver car and smiled back. We exchanged waves. You pulled in gas station, I followed, then you went inside, I had to park on side, then lost ya! I wanna meet the sexy lady who smiled! When: May 13. Where: Kangaroo @ Beach Blvd. #1238-0515

the way my grandchildren call me. I love to travel; good restaurants, really good food, a good book, hip-hop and the look in your eyes that will last me lifetimes. I’ll see you in my dreams. Love is freedom. When: April 1. Where: At a fair. #1229-0501 AUBURN WOODWIND CUTIE You said they wouldn’t allow your kind, but you can add jazz to my symphony any time. You: Red hair, clarinet. Me: Blonde fuzz, Red Bull buzz. I just couldn’t ask then. When: April 20. Where: JCA of Jacksonville. #1228-0501 LITERATE IGGY POP Pushing poems downtown, you’re more fun than the boneshaker and twice as interesting. Happy to have met you. When: April 18. Where: One Spark. #1227-0501

that you’re involved? When: March 27. Where: Publix @ Roosevelt. #1222-0417 GORGEOUS UNDER A LIGHT Although upset, the light shined on your radiant skin illuminating a sight the world will never see again. I’m offering peace, love, assurance and protection. Signed: I Only See You. When: April 10. Where: The Guest Bedroom. #1221-0417 LIMPING AT THE DOG PARK I Saw U limping into the dog park, with unparalleled grace and beauty. In your hand a pink leash with the most noble and elegant dog I’ve ever seen. After the dog park, I encountered several “Bad Habits” with you. Since that fateful day I cannot get you off my mind. When: March 9.

Where: Dogwood Park. #1220-0410

“GETTING IN THE WAY” OF MY DERBY DAY You: At Derby Park wearing turquoise, serving. Get in my way one more time and I’ll have to ask you your name.

When: May 4. Where: Derby Park. #1233-0508

WHITE TRUCK & SUSPENDERS You: Sort of tall cowboy/1960s BABE in a white T-shirt, khakis, suspenders. Me: Awestruck, mildly homelesslooking girl in an extremely large wool sweater and glasses.

ISU early this morning at my friends’ rainy garage sale. If you come back, you can take all of this shit to the Goodwill for us! Sexy! When: April 20. Where: Davis St. @ Neptune Beach. #1226-0501

HANDSOME SMILE MADE MY DAY You: Medium height, dark hair, brown/tan shirt and shorts. Me: Long dark brown/auburn hair, blue top and jeans. Exchanged smiles in passing, at checkout and glances in the parking lot. Maybe next we can exchange hellos. When: April 6. Where: Orange Park Walmart. #1219-0410

BEAUTIFUL BLOND ISU sitting at the end of the bar reading Folio Weekly’s ISUs. I was with my daughter and son-in-law. When you got ready to leave, you stopped by and whispered in my ear “You’re hot!” I felt the same way toward you; would love to get together and have some fun. Look forward to hearing from you. I’m sure we could. When: March 16. Where: Landshark Cafe. #1232-0508

MUFFIN FOR THE MUFFIN TOP You bought bagels, laughed at my muffin top comment, we talked about “Eat Pray Love.” You: Jeans, flipflops, with great personality, wildly handsome. Me: Blonde, with orange shirt & jeans and unforgettable laugh. You drive a Silver Mazda. Don’t know why I didn’t give you my card – I was captivated! I know we’d have big fun! When: April 19.

Where: Panera @ South Beach. #1225-0501

SUBWAY BEAUTY You: Beautiful blonde bombshell, wearing your military uniform and with a friend. Me: Black slacks, black shoes, orange T-shirt. I really would like to go back and give you my number. Tell me what your friend was wearing and what branch of the service you’re in and we can go from there. When: March 29. Where: Oakleaf Subway. #1218-0410

BACONALIA MAN You: Green T-shirt, ripped pants, excited about eating bacon, dropping it on your shirt which left a stain. Me: Watching you and smiling about your carefree style. I loved you from the minute I saw you. Can picture us growing old, enjoying our breakfasts for dinner while reading the newspaper together. When: April 24. Where: Denny’s @ Atlantic Blvd. #1231-0508

DRIVING ME WILD ISU driving others around in a golf cart. I’d like to give you a ride you’ll never forget. Your bearded face has been doing donuts in my mind all day! If I made your heart race like you made mine, let’s take a joyride sometime soon! When: April 13. Where: St. Johns Town Center. #1224-0424

BEHIND YOU CHECKING OUT Watched you check out at register about 6 p.m. You paid half cash with single bills and used your card for the balance, then joked with the cashier (what was the name on that card). Wish I would have asked your name. Me: Bald and wearing a black shirt and a big smile. When: March 25. Where: Winn-Dixie. #1217-0403

UPS DRIVER You used to deliver packages to my place of work but then got transferred to a different area in Jax. We never really talked (just smiled and waved) but then saw each other at Jimmy Johns, where we did. I have no idea if you are single but if you are and interested, I hope you reply. When: April 1.

Where: Jimmy Johns @ Riverside. #1230-0501 THAT MOMENT CAN LAST A LIFETIME I like pizza, I love beer and wine, good company, the love of my family and friends, the look in my children’s eyes,

YOU WERE MY CASHIER I have a reddish-blonde ponytail and I wore a visor, tank top and bermuda shorts. We talked about Bob Dylan on “The Voice,” “American Idol” singing, the theater, California, and the importance of family. If you are single, maybe we could get together. When: April 9. Where: Marshall’s @ Jax Beach. #1223-0424

HAIL TO THE CHIEF You: Standing with all your friends at the I Hope You’re a Doctor show. You were wearing a throwback Jacksonville Bulls shirt and some faded blue jeans. I see your face every time I hear Miami Tree on the radio. XOXO. When: Dec. 2012. Where: Riverside. #1216-0403

WE TALKED AND SIGNED You: Blonde, glasses, buying roses for your daughter. Me: Long, blonde hair, chatty. Wrote my number on a scrap of paper, easy to lose. Would still like a drink with you while talking about Florida School for Deaf and Blind, or tell me

SEXY MOTORCYCLE MAN I can remember the roar of your bike as you crossed my line of sight. It’s so stuck in my head, can’t wait till next time we rendezvous! Happy birthday xoxo. When: March 24. Where: San Pablo. #1215-0403

Backpage Editorial Higher Education Trends Reinforce Class Divide

Admission, scholarship and investment decisions hurt less advantaged students

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here is a long-standing debate in sociology on whether education is the “great equalizer” or the “reproducer of inequality.” As an “equalizer,” education advances the principle of equal opportunity in allowing the less advantaged access to educational credentials that can translate into upward mobility. As a “reproducer,” education — both in quantity and quality — is accessed disproportionately by the privileged, and thus used to retain and secure their grip on wealth and power.

Over the past two decades there is little question that the weight of evidence has moved heavily in favor of the argument that education is a system reproducing inequality rather than equalizing life chances. And as income inequality has steadily increased, the American social class system has become more caste-like due to the intergenerational transmission of privilege or deprivation. One clear indicator: Today, among the 12 major industrialized nations, the United States is ranked 10th in the degree of social mobility, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This is not the kind of “American exceptionalism” we aspire to.

But a number of recent reports by public policy research institutes indicate the higher education sector has taken the system to

good, higher education has become a private commodity, varying widely in cost and quality, which some can afford and others cannot.

Unfortunately, rather than reversing the inequitable effects of the privatization of higher education, colleges and universities pursue policies that often further exacerbate the inequities. One widely reported trend involves the desire of, and competition between, universities to recruit the highest achieving high school seniors with meritbased scholarships. While all universities logically want to recruit the most academically competent, these students are also especially prized for their contribution to enhancing an institution’s ranking in the all-important US New and World Report–type publications.

Many universities have become obsessed with their relative position in the hierarchy and the need to keep moving up in the rankings.

As one might expect, this status anxiety manifests itself in a shift in the proportion of funding from need-based to merit-based scholarships. Because there is a strong correlation between family wealth and student academic success, these financial aid policies simply reinforce the cumulative advantage of the rich, neglecting any consideration of the family’s ability to pay. The net result is that the

Because there is a strong correlation between family wealth and student academic success, these financial aid policies simply reinforce the cumulative advantage of the rich, neglecting any consideration of the family’s ability to pay. a whole new level of institutional class discrimination. It is important to emphasize that there are several broad political economic forces shaping these pernicious trends — the most significant is the systematic long-term defunding of the public sector under the economic regime of neo-liberalism.

As supply-side economics doctrine, promoted by corporate interests, has resulted in lower taxes on the rich and corporations, always in the name of stimulating investment and growth, state governments find that they are less able to finance public services and institutions, including higher education.

Therefore, tuition rates keep rising to make up the difference.

For example, from 2008-2013, Florida has seen a 41.2 percent decline in spending per student in higher education (the fifth highest decline among the states) while average tuition increased by 67.3 percent (the third highest increase), according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

As the cost of education rises, students who have been socialized to believe that a college degree guarantees economic security and upward mobility, finance their education with private student loans. Rather than a public

least economically advantaged students and their families pay a higher percent of their income on education than their wealthier counterparts — a highly regressive and economically unjust result.

There is another practice, recently reported, that further buttresses class-based inequities.

Universities are now seeking to recruit those students who are best able to cover the full cost of tuition. This means giving admissions preference to the “full-pay” students who do not apply for financial aid, can be lured to the school with a small or no scholarship, and are able to cover tuition costs out-of-pocket. Again, this obviously favors upper and upper-middle class students.

Finally, a recent study titled “Bridging the Higher Education Divide” highlights the growing class-based institutional segregation between four-year universities and community colleges. “High-socioeconomic status (SES) students outnumber low-SES students by 14 to 1 in the most competitive four-year institutions, yet low-SES students outnumber high-SES students in community colleges by nearly 2 to 1,” the study states.

They refer to this as a “separate but unequal” educational arrangement.

As if all this were not bad enough, we now discover that university endowments are profiting off the rising debt burden weighing on struggling college graduates — a level of debt that, remarkably, now exceeds that for credit cards. It has been reported in the Huffington Post that the very entity from which less advantaged students are borrowing large sums of money to cover the cost of rising tuition at their university – Sallie Mae – is also where some universities are investing their endowment funds. Or, to put it more bluntly, some universities are actually making money on students twice.

Once with the cost of tuition paid through loans, and second through the returns on the investments in the corporation that is lending students the money.

On purely economic grounds, there is no doubt this is a wise investment decision for universities. After all, Sallie Mae is essentially a monopoly, with students having few alternative sources for financial assistance. Accordingly, there have been many complaints about the predatory behavior and poor customer service of Sallie Mae. But on ethical grounds, one might ask if universities should be investing in Sallie Mae? Or whether this is a conflict of interest?

While this type of investment practice might be business as usual for the corporate/ financial sector, where “shareholder value” and the maximization of profit trump all other considerations, universities should adhere to a higher standard.

Unfortunately, for most universities, there is no way to know even where the endowment is being invested. Private investment firms manage the money, and such information is not covered under any sunshine law.

This is another area where a university

could play a more progressive role – putting its money where its mouth is. I have raised the issue of endowment transparency at my own university. I believe there should be greater transparency to determine if endowment investments are consonant with the espoused values of the institution. That is, we might regard some corporations or industries less desirable as investments than others given, for example, their record of criminal violations, labor relations policies or the particular line of business.

This endowment investment issue is starting to heat up. Currently, there is a national movement by college students demanding that their universities divest from fossil fuel companies that advance and defend an energy strategy contributing to environmentally destructive climate change. A similar movement might arise as it relates to firms like Sallie Mae. In the end, one might expect institutions of higher education, above all, to be dedicated to principles of equal opportunity and corporate social/environmental responsibility. But increasingly, it seems, there are other economic objectives and priorities that have displaced a commitment to these values. Ultimately, it is up to the students and the faculty to decide what kind of institution they want and whether current developments are departing from that vision. They then need to take organized political action that starts on the campus and extends beyond to the state and federal level.

But thus far, for the most part, there has been more apathy than activity; though there are emerging signs that the times, they may be a-changin’.

David Jaffee

Jaffee is a sociology professor at the University of North Florida.

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